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

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#3105722 18-Jul-2023 20:14

duckDecoy:

I have just dont my monthly credit card bill check and discovered my son has racked up just under $3000 on in game purchases. This falls well outside the "something small" category naturally. My bad for leaving my credit card on his PS account, I never assumed he would buy stuff without asking. Parental fail moment.

But it was mainly on 'loot box' style purchases. I am annoyed that gaming companies target young kids for what is effectively gambling. The sports games they buy are targeted at young kids but you need to buy and open player packs to get a decent side if you want to win.

Interestingly a few countries have banned loot boxes as they are too akin to gambling.

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#3105739 18-Jul-2023 20:42

rb99:

This rubbish -

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/132563941/countdown-supermarkets-to-rebrand-back-to-woolworths

$400million to change the colour scheme.

Still, as long as they don't use the money to cut prices, thats the main thing.

OK, some stuff gets done / replaced anyway, just a different colour, but still...

Not even a colour scheme just a logo

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#3105742 18-Jul-2023 20:51

rb99:

This rubbish -

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/132563941/countdown-supermarkets-to-rebrand-back-to-woolworths

$400million to change the colour scheme.

Still, as long as they don't use the money to cut prices, thats the main thing.

OK, some stuff gets done / replaced anyway, just a different colour, but still...

Quite clever isn't it. Spend 1 million on paint and 399 million on licensing costs to head office - that's all money that can't be excess profit next time you're under the microscope.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3105902 19-Jul-2023 11:13

Drivers that deliberately cut in, when it's blatantly obvious that the traffic in the left lane is going in your direction and the right lane is not.

Then to have the balls to cut in and let in at least a dozen others over the course of a hundred metres or so!!

I'm looking at you, lady in the silver Honda.

Oh...and people that still in this enlightened age insist on texting and driving.

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#3105909 19-Jul-2023 11:47

networkn:

The other day I took 6 items through the self checkout, and 5 of them required someone to intervene and none of them were restricted items.

I miss plastic bags that used to be able to stretch across the area you could put stuff in, the new re-useable bags don't work nearly as effectively.

My local New World has switched to paper bags for fresh produce. There's a barcode on the bottom, so when you put the bag of fruit on the self-checkout it goes "1 bag at $0.00" and refuses to let you enter what sort of fruit is in there until you remove it from the scale and re-place it, this time with the barcode facing away from the scanner.

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#3105943 19-Jul-2023 13:44

Although Deco Mesh, EasyMesh, OneMesh™ and Omada Mesh all support mesh networks, they are different mesh technologies.

Deco Mesh, Omada Mesh and EasyMesh or OneMesh™ are supported by different TP-Link products, so they cannot build a mesh network together.

What a meshmash! Totally meshugge. A meesa meshee af TP-Link.

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#3105997 19-Jul-2023 16:13

There's an option in MacOS to sync your iPhone over Wi-Fi. When you try to do it, it tells you to enter your iPhone PIN... on the iPhone. So you still need to go and get it, and at that point you might as well just plug the cable in.

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#3105998 19-Jul-2023 16:17

New neighbour, has around 6 company vehicles, and a trailer, and a light truck. Parks a couple on his property, the rest on the street. Very annoying that he uses our street to park his commercial vehicles. He technically doesn't operate his business from the house, so seems to be completely legal.

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#3105999 19-Jul-2023 16:21

surfisup1000:

New neighbour, has around 6 company vehicles, and a trailer, and a light truck. Parks a couple on his property, the rest on the street. Very annoying that he uses our street to park his commercial vehicles. He technically doesn't operate his business from the house, so seems to be completely legal.

A neighbour just down the street is doing some major renovation work and sometimes there are trucks blocking her driveway. When this happens and she gets home from work, she's taken to parking on the verge outside my place. It's fairly soft ground, especially at this time of year, and a noticeable rut is forming.

Today is rubbish collection day, and there are trucks outside her place. I've strategically left the empty bins on the verge so that she can't park there.

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#3106007 19-Jul-2023 17:00

Behodar:

surfisup1000:

New neighbour, has around 6 company vehicles, and a trailer, and a light truck. Parks a couple on his property, the rest on the street. Very annoying that he uses our street to park his commercial vehicles. He technically doesn't operate his business from the house, so seems to be completely legal.

A neighbour just down the street is doing some major renovation work and sometimes there are trucks blocking her driveway. When this happens and she gets home from work, she's taken to parking on the verge outside my place. It's fairly soft ground, especially at this time of year, and a noticeable rut is forming.

Today is rubbish collection day, and there are trucks outside her place. I've strategically left the empty bins on the verge so that she can't park there.

We have two cars in our garage which is a rarity on our street. There are double bays every fifty metres as the street is narrow. They are all full which is fine I guess, but one idn now parking in the one nearest us which is always empty, but it's a long car, so any other car pulls in behind it, parks on the grass a bit and makes it slightly awkward for us to get out safely.

I was washing the car on Sunday having just mown all the verges when a chap in a really big American ute parked on it. I was waiting for the obligatory once you've finished washing your car... But I pre-empted him and said, I've just mown that grass and he was a bit sheepish.

Look I get it. It's not our car park, but the big car that's in there never moves. I'd actually wonder what life was like if there was no on street parking allowed. I have to assume all the garages in our street are not actually filled with cars.

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#3106008 19-Jul-2023 17:06

mudguard:

I have to assume all the garages in our street are not actually filled with cars.

I know next door's isn't. Double garage, three cars parked outside (on their property). Often a fourth parked in the street.

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#3106009 19-Jul-2023 17:13

given all these new subdivisions with townhouses have double and single garages but the house designs have little in the way of storage in them, it seems most resort to having their garage as a storage room with the cars parked outside.

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#3106010 19-Jul-2023 17:14

A lot of the streets around here are essentially single-laned due to solid rows of cars parked along both sides. To get down them you have to pull into a driveway section where there's no cars parked to let the car driving along the white centre line go past, then it's your turn to go down the street.

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#3106012 19-Jul-2023 17:21

mudguard:I have to assume all the garages in our street are not actually filled with cars.

Probably filled with tenants / boarders to pay the mortgage / rent, especially given what landlords try to rent for ridiculous amounts these days!

(I used to rent, it was $88 per week for the WHOLE 4 bedroom (Nice) flat in Christchurch in the mid 80's. Bought our own place in 1990)

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#3106014 19-Jul-2023 17:28

msukiwi:
(I used to rent, it was $88 per week for the WHOLE 4 bedroom (Nice) flat in Christchurch in the mid 80's.)

Sure, but you were also expected to send your children to work at mill for landlord, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month. And they had to walk uphill both ways because every day was either a carless day or the transport workers were on strike.

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