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

Forums › Off topic › [Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

1 | ... | 1423 | 1424 | 1425 | 1426 | 1427 | 1428 | 1429 | 1430 | 1431 | 1432 | 1433 | ... | 1828

10501 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3111400 3-Aug-2023 13:13

Five per electorate is probably a bit too sparse: Wikipedia tells me that my electorate is 13814 square km, so that's around 0.22 signs per Auckland urban area.

MadEngineer

4271 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

#3111401 3-Aug-2023 13:16

The channel for one of our sliding doors filling up with rain water. It’s not leaking inside fortunately, at least that I can see. Looks like I’ll need to lift the door out and remove the slide rail from the bottom to clear any blockages underneath. I’ve tried poking the drain holes with a paper clip already.

The door being doubled glazed is bloody heavy and definitely a two man job as both ends need to be lifted together.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

richms

28168 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3111407 3-Aug-2023 13:31

msukiwi:

Election Hoardings once again blotting the landscape!

I have only seen the brand awareness "community meeting" notice ones so far, none of the election ones yet.

Richard rich.ms

mudguard

2113 posts

Uber Geek

#3111432 3-Aug-2023 13:56

MadEngineer: The channel for one of our sliding doors filling up with rain water. It’s not leaking inside fortunately, at least that I can see. Looks like I’ll need to lift the door out and remove the slide rail from the bottom to clear any blockages underneath. I’ve tried poking the drain holes with a paper clip already.

The door being doubled glazed is bloody heavy and definitely a two man job as both ends need to be lifted together.

Could you use the ole computer can compressed air? I've done that with a few sliding windows that have drain holes. And to clear out stuff the vacuum cleaner won't grab.

Handsomedan

7281 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

Trusted

Subscriber

#3111511 3-Aug-2023 15:26

Went to a car auction with my son today specifically for one car. Sat through 39 lots until the one came up that we were interested in. placed a number of bids, but tapped out at our pre-agreed limit.

It sold for $100 more than our highest bid. Poor kid was gutted.
I had to explain that if we had bid that extra $100, so could/would the other person and you end up in a potentially losing battle and pay more than you need to.

Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

MadEngineer

4271 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

#3111575 3-Aug-2023 19:13

mudguard:

MadEngineer: The channel for one of our sliding doors filling up with rain water. It’s not leaking inside fortunately, at least that I can see. Looks like I’ll need to lift the door out and remove the slide rail from the bottom to clear any blockages underneath. I’ve tried poking the drain holes with a paper clip already.

The door being doubled glazed is bloody heavy and definitely a two man job as both ends need to be lifted together.

Could you use the ole computer can compressed air? I've done that with a few sliding windows that have drain holes. And to clear out stuff the vacuum cleaner won't grab.

maybe but i suspect if i did that then whatever has blocked it up will only temporarily be shifted rather than be permanently removed

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3111644 3-Aug-2023 23:32

mudguard:
Could you use the ole computer can compressed air? I've done that with a few sliding windows that have drain holes. And to clear out stuff the vacuum cleaner won't grab.

For the drain holes in the sliding windows below the pohutukawa, which fill up with debris, I cut a square of scouring pad and wedged it in front of each one which stops 99% of the gunk from getting into the holes and blocking them. Every now and then I pull the pads out and rinse them, that's all that's required.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3111647 3-Aug-2023 23:39

frankv:
As an example, Lauren Dickason justified killing her 3 children because it meant they would go to heaven and not suffer any more.

Religion tends not to work well for thinking people.

"You can go to heaven, but there's a lifetime of suffering first".

"Oh, that's easy, I'll shortcut that by killing myself".

"You won't go to heaven if you do that because of this rule I've just made up".

"OK, I'll get someone else to kill me and go to heaven".

"No, another new rule, can't do that either".

"Well in that case..."

"Look will you just stop thinking and believe? Religion doesn't work if you start thinking about it".

msukiwi

2417 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#3112049 5-Aug-2023 11:39

Why I bother persisting on visiting the Riccarton Warehouse! They NEVER fail to disappoint!

Check stock of an item Friday Night = IN STOCK!

Visit Store Sat @ 0930hrs = NO Stock! - Confirmed by a Staff Member! (Who also checked in THEIR computer system!)

Check online on my return @ 1130hrs = Still showing as IN STOCK!

Same thing every time!

Visit - No Stock - Return home and hit head with a hammer - Repeat again another day!

Order Online I hear you say! That only gives them the use of YOUR money for a while while they decide that they can't actually find the item, then the emailed Thanks for the use of your money, we'll give it back eventually!

Every Online order, at least one item falls into this category!!!!

johno1234

2793 posts

Uber Geek

#3112052 5-Aug-2023 11:47

If you pay by credit card they don’t have your money for 20-40 days. They have someone else’s money. Worth it as long as the delivery is free or cheap.

MadEngineer

4271 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

#3112091 5-Aug-2023 16:06

Doesn’t help that they don’t provide stock levels. It’s either in stock or not.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

rb99

3422 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#3112219 6-Aug-2023 09:19

The rates bill. Included with this is what you get for your money list - 'Your rates pay for access to heaps of services...'. The first item is drinking water, which strangely we get a separate bill for. 'Access' is right.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

rb99

Behodar

10501 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3112221 6-Aug-2023 09:27

"Why do rates increase faster than inflation?" / "Here's a paragraph of waffle that basically says "because we felt like it"."

rb99

3422 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#3112222 6-Aug-2023 09:33

Or its because we conveniently have a different rate to the rest of the proletariat. Don't think I've ever seen anything increase at a rate lower than the 'rate of inflation', and yet its apparently supposed to be some kind of average.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

rb99

freitasm

BDFL - Memuneh
79250 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator

ID Verified

Trusted

Geekzone

Lifetime subscriber

#3112225 6-Aug-2023 09:48

Windows laptop coming back from hibernation and losing Windows Hello - PIN and fingerprint. Had to recreate those and with that update some online services that used Windows Hello as 2FA or passkeys.

I always shutdown my computers - every day. The one time I use hibernate in years, and it shits itself.

1 | ... | 1423 | 1424 | 1425 | 1426 | 1427 | 1428 | 1429 | 1430 | 1431 | 1432 | 1433 | ... | 1828