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

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#3101594 9-Jul-2023 06:44

eracode:

Do you mean he earns no income in the US (and never has?) but still has to pay US income tax on income earned elsewhere?

This is the nub of FATCA. Non-US banks have to provide information on US citizens to the IRS. Ironically US banks don't have to comply, so it has made domestic tax havens much more popular (several states have "innovated" with their laws to make this easier) - e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-american-tax-haven-why-the-super-rich-love-south-dakota-trust-laws

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#3101595 9-Jul-2023 07:09

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neb: Most of us don't. A friend of mine had the misfortune to be born in the US, not by design. He left as soon as his mother was well enough to travel again and has never set foot in the US (he was on his back the week or two he was there so he really never has set foot there), but he pays US taxes, or more to the point the IRS pulls money out of his NZ back account every year and there's nothing he can do about it.

Do you mean he earns no income in the US (and never has?) but still has to pay US income tax on income earned elsewhere?

Yip. There is a tax free threshold (US$120k this year) but once you go over that it's taxed as US income.

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#3101792 10-Jul-2023 08:06

Have recently noticed a trend of roading authority putting in speed humps before controlled intersections and controlled pedestrian crossings.

Like these.

I can maybe understand the reasons behind placing them before a pedestrian crossing whether it is controlled or not.

I'm sure the majority of us know what to do when approaching traffic lights so having them as you approach an intersection is something I find annoying.

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#3101807 10-Jul-2023 08:53

The local council put a combined speed hump/pedestrian crossing at the end of my parents' street. It's right up against the stop sign, so your options are either to stop before the crossing where you can't see, or on top of the crossing so the pedestrians can't cross.

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#3101826 10-Jul-2023 09:48

Speaking of local councils: Our neighbourhood inorganic rubbish collection.

There's very strict guidelines on how/where you can place your inorganic refuse for collection and how much you can put out. It's max 1cuM and must be placed on your property, but not behind a locked gate etc.
Very clear statement about it not being on the verge/berm, or on public land.

Where do the vast majority of people in our neighbourhood put their inorganic refuse? On the berm. Where it ends up often strewn across the road.
How much would our average household put out? 2-3cuM I'd guess.

We've inconvenienced ourselves by putting on our driveway, making it hard to park, but easy for the collectors to get to.
We've also been careful to not load the collection guys up with more than a cubic metre of rubbish. We've been neat and tidy about it and followed the rules. Why can't others also do this?

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#3102033 10-Jul-2023 11:19

When we lived in Wgtn our suburb had an inorganic waste collection once a year but it was spoilt by out of area people coming in and dumping what they couldn't get rid of at their own addresses.

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#3102037 10-Jul-2023 11:24

That Hotmail is too dumb to identify and junk as spam an email that comes from a domain that doesn't resolve in DNS, is full of silly emoticons, spaced out words and weird fonts.

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#3102040 10-Jul-2023 11:30

Handsomedan:

Speaking of local councils: Our neighbourhood inorganic rubbish collection.

There's very strict guidelines on how/where you can place your inorganic refuse for collection and how much you can put out. It's max 1cuM and must be placed on your property, but not behind a locked gate etc.
Very clear statement about it not being on the verge/berm, or on public land.

Where do the vast majority of people in our neighbourhood put their inorganic refuse? On the berm. Where it ends up often strewn across the road.
How much would our average household put out? 2-3cuM I'd guess.

We've inconvenienced ourselves by putting on our driveway, making it hard to park, but easy for the collectors to get to.
We've also been careful to not load the collection guys up with more than a cubic metre of rubbish. We've been neat and tidy about it and followed the rules. Why can't others also do this?

Oh God, remember when there was an inorganic collection day when everyone dumped all their cr@p on the kerb, and after about a month the contractors would finally collect it? Made all of Auckland look like a Delhi slum. Meanwhile Steptoe and Son cruised the posh neighbourhoods looking for gems to polish up and put on TradeMe?

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#3102048 10-Jul-2023 11:42

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Oh God, remember when there was an inorganic collection day when everyone dumped all their cr@p on the kerb, and after about a month the contractors would finally collect it? Made all of Auckland look like a Delhi slum. Meanwhile Steptoe and Son cruised the posh neighbourhoods looking for gems to polish up and put on TradeMe?

The vans and small trucks cruising the neighbourhoods looking for "hidden gems" and simply dumping stuff in the street after they'd messily sifted through the rubbish. Then they'd add to it as they discovered some of their gems were junk.
Then on top of that, you'd have people coming and leaving empty rusted gas tanks and paint tins in your pile, because they couldn't get rid of them in their own collection.

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#3102058 10-Jul-2023 12:00

Handsomedan:

The vans and small trucks cruising the neighbourhoods looking for "hidden gems" and simply dumping stuff in the street after they'd messily sifted through the rubbish. Then they'd add to it as they discovered some of their gems were junk.
Then on top of that, you'd have people coming and leaving empty rusted gas tanks and paint tins in your pile, because they couldn't get rid of them in their own collection.

I blame the move a couple of decades or so past to commercialise the disposal of domestic waste. An example of this is landfills. When I was first married I could take my waste to the landfill and there was no entry fee. The Landfill nearest to me now costs circa $40 to take a car load of waste to the landfill and extra to take it to a collection centre. For me that is not a problem, it annoys me but I can afford it. For many it's their food for the week. This has caused a rise of illegal dumping.

I had someone dump a load of waste in my recycling and rubbish bins after the bins had been emptied and before my awesome neighbour brought them up to our home. This was waste that I could not put in the bin for the next collection and we had to take to the collection centre at our cost.

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#3102059 10-Jul-2023 12:00

Handsomedan:

Speaking of local councils: Our neighbourhood inorganic rubbish collection.

There's very strict guidelines on how/where you can place your inorganic refuse for collection and how much you can put out. It's max 1cuM and must be placed on your property, but not behind a locked gate etc.
Very clear statement about it not being on the verge/berm, or on public land.

Where do the vast majority of people in our neighbourhood put their inorganic refuse? On the berm. Where it ends up often strewn across the road. How much would our average household put out? 2-3cuM I'd guess.

We've inconvenienced ourselves by putting on our driveway, making it hard to park, but easy for the collectors to get to.
We've also been careful to not load the collection guys up with more than a cubic metre of rubbish. We've been neat and tidy about it and followed the rules. Why can't others also do this?

I arranged for inorganic stuff to be picked up from our place a couple of weeks ago - and the same thing happened that you describe. I think I know why other peoples’ stuff ends up on the berm:

If you book online for your stuff to be picked up, it’s done when the Council have scheduled a collection for your street/area. When they confirm your booking, they send you the very clear and strict instructions that you have outlined above, as to where to leave your stuff. Out at the kerb is meant to be a strict no-no.

However other people in the street notice that some people (those who have booked online) have inorganic rubbish just inside their boundaries - and those other people think “Oh, there’s gonna be an inorganic collection”. So, because they haven’t seen the specific instructions, they just put all their stuff out at the kerb, as they have done in the past. I suspect that only a small number of the beneficiaries of the collection have booked online and know the rules - all the rest are hangers-on.

So the whole thing falls apart. IIRC, in their confirmation email, the Council says that stuff left at the kerb will not be picked up. But in reality, when it comes to the crunch on collection day, the pick-up contractor picks it all up anyway - that’s what happened in our street.

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#3102144 10-Jul-2023 14:15

When you are stuck in a Call Centre Queue...... repeatedly told "A specialist etc will be with you SHORTLY"!!!!

You've already been on hold for Over an hour! Funny definition of "shortly"!

And you finally get to 6 Callers ahead of you, then next message is that there are now 7 callers ahead of you!

If you can queue jump - tell me how!

How long would you wait in a store after being told by the assistant that he will be with you shortly?

At least an hour? I don't think so!!!!

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#3102147 10-Jul-2023 14:37

MikeB4:

Handsomedan:

The vans and small trucks cruising the neighbourhoods looking for "hidden gems" and simply dumping stuff in the street after they'd messily sifted through the rubbish. Then they'd add to it as they discovered some of their gems were junk.
Then on top of that, you'd have people coming and leaving empty rusted gas tanks and paint tins in your pile, because they couldn't get rid of them in their own collection.

I blame the move a couple of decades or so past to commercialise the disposal of domestic waste. An example of this is landfills. When I was first married I could take my waste to the landfill and there was no entry fee. The Landfill nearest to me now costs circa $40 to take a car load of waste to the landfill and extra to take it to a collection centre. For me that is not a problem, it annoys me but I can afford it. For many it's their food for the week. This has caused a rise of illegal dumping.

I had someone dump a load of waste in my recycling and rubbish bins after the bins had been emptied and before my awesome neighbour brought them up to our home. This was waste that I could not put in the bin for the next collection and we had to take to the collection centre at our cost.

I took one bag of rubbish to the refuse transfer station in Frankton on Friday and was charged $8.50! One bag!

It's as if they want people to fly-tip in our beautiful landscapes.

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#3102193 10-Jul-2023 14:41

My neighbours continually throwing their smoke buts over my fence...

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#3102194 10-Jul-2023 14:45

garbonzai:

My neighbours continually throwing their smoke buts over my fence...

Throw your poop over their fence. When they complain, just say, "oh, I thought that's what we were doing? Throwing our unwanted disgusting items into each others properties!"

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