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

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#3069226 29-Apr-2023 16:05

No, I'd prefer one with easy transport access for large crowds of people, plenty of parking, room to grow, and somewhere where no-one will be bothered by any level of noise from it.

Every one of which Eden Park fails at spectacularly. It may have made sense to have it there 120 years ago when a few hundred people would... ride horses? catch a tram? out to there to politely golf-clap the cricket, but it's wrong in almost every way for its current use.

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#3069228 29-Apr-2023 16:09

A new stadium would be 10 years away if they had a location and money for it now. It's likely a 1 to 2 BILLION dollar project. My Eden is the best we have. Waterfront would be a nightmare to park and traffic manage too.

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#3069229 29-Apr-2023 16:09

Journeyman:
You prefer a waterfront stadium?

A CBD stadium would have been great but that ship sailed.

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#3069230 29-Apr-2023 16:14

networkn: A new stadium would be 10 years away if they had a location and money for it now. It's likely a 1 to 2 BILLION dollar project. My Eden is the best we have. Waterfront would be a nightmare to park and traffic manage too.

Cool, let’s keep throwing public money at private organisations for mediocre facilities that can only be used a few time a year.

The entire Auckland transport system is arranged around the CBD. Most events are in the evening when public car parking is available and far far more plentiful than in a residential suburb.

Aucklands stadium problems are fixable but it requires a vision which Aucklands leadership is unable to provide.

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#3069238 29-Apr-2023 16:46

Handle9:
Cool, let’s keep throwing public money at private organisations for mediocre facilities that can only be used a few time a year.

The entire Auckland transport system is arranged around the CBD. Most events are in the evening when public car parking is available and far far more plentiful than in a residential suburb.

Aucklands stadium problems are fixable but it requires a vision which Aucklands leadership is unable to provide.

When was the last time you used public transport in Auckland, let alone to the CBD? It's a nightmare.

We need something in the meantime between now and whenever a new stadium gets built and given there isn't any plans currently seriously being considered, any money to build it, any people to build, the alternative is we don't give money to Eden Park, and it's facilities continue to decline until it's totally unsuitable for anything, and we have no alternative. Like... Christchurch for example.

Eden Park is far from perfect, but it's what we have.

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#3069263 29-Apr-2023 17:03

The annoying lack of grammar on packets of Hellers bread sticks. Presumably the owner is called "Frank" because of the name on them, so the bread sticks should be "Frank's", not "Franks".

OK, it's a small thing but it still annoys me.

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#3069264 29-Apr-2023 17:12

The traffic and transport options in the CBD are an order of magnitude better than Eden Park.

Christchurch doesn’t have a stadium because it got condemned.

There is zero justification to redevelop Eden Park at public expense, which is what the trust board is asking for.

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#3069414 29-Apr-2023 21:51

neb: The annoying lack of grammar on packets of Hellers bread sticks. Presumably the owner is called "Frank" because of the name on them, so the bread sticks should be "Frank's", not "Franks". OK, it's a small thing but it still annoys me.

I thought Hellers was a meat company not a bread company?

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#3069415 29-Apr-2023 21:53

Geektastic:
neb: The annoying lack of grammar on packets of Hellers bread sticks. Presumably the owner is called "Frank" because of the name on them, so the bread sticks should be "Frank's", not "Franks". OK, it's a small thing but it still annoys me.

I thought Hellers was a meat company not a bread company?

Think about it for a minute...

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#3069416 29-Apr-2023 21:57

The fact that branded things can be different instead of identical depending on whether you buy them on the North Island or South Island.

Specifically in this case, bread rolls and bread.

Nature's Fresh long rolls on the NI are batch baked in 3's - so 3 rolls have to be torn apart along the side seam to seperate them for eating. This produces nice soft bread.

Same product with same branding etc on the SI is obviously made somewhere else and each roll is baked in single (probably silicone) forms so you get six individual rolls not at all joined together. They are dry and horrid when compared to the NI version.

Likewise I usually buy Freyas Dutch Wholemeal (the choices available in Wholemeal bread are not wide in most supermarkets!) and I noticed differences in textures and in the meal used to dust the loaves between bread I bought in Auckland and bread I bought in Wellington and again in bread I buy in Chch.

Whilst I would prefer they made it all in one place so it was the same and then distributed it, clearly that is not their model. At least make it identically in each place if you are going to spread the manufacture around. Grrr.

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#3069418 29-Apr-2023 22:03

neb: [Think about it for a minute...

No you have lost me I am afraid.

Surely they are called Franks as an abbreviation of frankfurter?

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#3069422 29-Apr-2023 22:11

Geektastic:
neb: [Think about it for a minute...

No you have lost me I am afraid.

Surely they are called Franks as an abbreviation of frankfurter?

There's more bread in them than meat, so they're closer to bread sticks than sausages.

We actually got them for the cat because they're cheaper than wet cat food (seriously!). The cat, which will otherwise eat its own vomit, turned its nose up at them.

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#3069424 29-Apr-2023 22:16

Geektastic:
Specifically in this case, bread rolls and bread.

They're not even consistent among supermarkets. Case in point, tiger bread, which varies widely from store to store. Or even more so roast pork, Pak'n'Save Wairau is far better than any other Pak'n'Save or Countdown I've ever got it from, if they even do pork. We're talking food court/roast meals takeaways vs. restaurant-grade difference in quality here.

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#3069426 29-Apr-2023 22:30

neb:There's more bread in them than meat, so they're closer to bread sticks than sausages. We actually got them for the cat because they're cheaper than wet cat food (seriously!). The cat, which will otherwise eat its own vomit, turned its nose up at them.

A "typical" Hellers product then? Even magpies ignore their meat products put out and walk over them to find something else! (Even if it is a slice of actual bread!)

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#3069489 30-Apr-2023 12:44

I'm having a bad time shopping lately. Went out to get 9 things, across 2 supermarkets and an asian food market and a diary managed to get 3 things!

Cost me twice in petrol what it cost in food!

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