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

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#3090867 16-Jun-2023 21:12

A 22% price increase for my property insurance.

My property manager is getting on my tits as well but I can more easily give her some feedback.

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#3090889 17-Jun-2023 01:36

Being sent a set of instructions for a trading relationship configuration process run by SAP, consisting of several steps with a sentence or two describing each one, e.g. "Click your company name in the top right corner of any page to expand the Administration Navigator".

Every single one of those steps is wrong, referring to things that don't exist, are located elsewhere, are labelled differently, etc. Every. Single. One.

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#3090896 17-Jun-2023 07:18

I went to try and unsubscribe from the Auckland Live email list.

Unsubscribe link doesn't work in their latest email. Address didn't resolve.

Opened an older email from them and the unsubscribe link worked. It shows this at the top of the page.

So scrolled to bottom of page and I get this.

If you can't laugh at yourself then you probably shouldn't laugh at others.

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#3091246 17-Jun-2023 20:22

Report it to DIA and see how they like them apples.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3091325 18-Jun-2023 08:37

That my kettle takes longer to boil in winter, which is when I want it to boil faster so I can have a drink that warms me up!

At a recent hospital visit I saw one of those instant hot water taps for the first time in person. Expensive, but kinda cool.

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#3091330 18-Jun-2023 09:38

Are you describing heating say 2 cups of water in an electric jug where the difference between 4 and 20⁰C starting point is about 10 secs according to the online calculator at https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/water-heating or some ancient ritual involving kindling and matches?

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#3091336 18-Jun-2023 10:33

Hah, reminds me of several years ago when a local road changed from 100 km/h to 80. People complained that their commutes now took too long.

Someone (maybe from the council) did the maths and replied with something like "Your commute is theoretically 32 seconds longer, and in practice less than that because you can't accelerate instantly. Is that really such a big deal?"

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#3091341 18-Jun-2023 11:04

The sheer amount of time wasted (At the time & After) caused by Scammers, and the "attitude" of Bank / Telco etc that because YOU didn't actually lose anything the total lack of interest shown!

You can provide exact call times, even though blocked to you, the Telco with Police Report and Agreement to release the information can provide it AND Block it incoming into their network! (And hopefully pass on to the other telcos)

You are on a Fixed IP so any accesses to your Online stuff from a different (Non-Bank) IP is the Scammer! So they can find out exactly where they are in the World!

All to try and STOP the next person (Who may be YOU) from being Scammed!

Without going to the "Top" at the Telco - A completely frustrating - most would give up experience!

Without the Wife actually working for the Bank, and able to "drive the blocking etc" from the Inside, it is impossible to get anywhere meaningful in time! But hey "Your Call is Important to us" as you waste another usually hour of your life!

As a result I have had the Telco Fraud Team reach out to me, and agree that "it shouldn't be this hard"! Trying to change with Feedback given by me. Here's hoping. And thanks to the CEO for getting a Very Uphill Ball Rolling!

Currently, the Wife is drafting an email to the Bank CEO with beginning to end, and thoughts to seriously change the system back in favour of the Customer & not the Scammer!

Here's hoping!

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#3091671 18-Jun-2023 17:36

Purchasing a new 55" TV from NL and 2 days later receiving a email if you buy this product now you will get a $200 give voucher, dam...

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#3091673 18-Jun-2023 17:41

garbonzai:
Purchasing a new 55" TV from NL and 2 days later receiving a email if you buy this product now you will get a $200 give voucher, dam...

Go hit them up about it - you never know, they may give it to you.

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#3091691 18-Jun-2023 18:58

garbonzai:
Purchasing a new 55" TV from NL and 2 days later receiving a email if you buy this product now you will get a $200 give voucher, dam...

NL will sort that for you. Give their 0800 number a call.

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#3091758 18-Jun-2023 21:05

networkn:
That my kettle takes longer to boil in winter, which is when I want it to boil faster so I can have a drink that warms me up!

At a recent hospital visit I saw one of those instant hot water taps for the first time in person. Expensive, but kinda cool.

I've mentioned this before in other threads, but if you're serious about tea then consider getting a Zojirushi. Boils the water once, then uses minimal power to keep it at temperature in a triple-walled thermos so you've got instant hot water any time you want a cup.

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#3091769 18-Jun-2023 22:16

A friend tells a story of staying on an elderly uncle's farm and finding the reason the early morning tea had an odd taste was that he filled the kettle with the lukewarm water from his hot water bottle. Waste not!

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#3091872 19-Jun-2023 09:16

Bung: Are you describing heating say 2 cups of water in an electric jug where the difference between 4 and 20⁰C starting point is about 10 secs according to the online calculator at https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/water-heating or some ancient ritual involving kindling and matches?

Well it sure is small and … annoying.

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#3091927 19-Jun-2023 11:21

I found a bug in a piece of open source software. Some searching found that I'm not the only person to run into this issue, but apparently nobody ever actually filed a bug report.

I filed a report, and a few days later one of the developers put a comment on it saying he'd replicated the bug and confirmed it was an issue, and that it would be fixed in due course.

Nothing happened for about the next six weeks, then a different developer added a comment saying he couldn't replicate the issue, and closed the bug as "fixed". The first dev's comment has conveniently vanished without a trace (apart from the copy still in my email).

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