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

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#3113867 9-Aug-2023 19:09

This annoys and amuses. From a local Facebook group where someone posted an ad for Meat prices from 2002

A reply was:

Order NZ meat in from Australia it'll be cheaper

@OP but injected with covid vax like America.

Oh boy.

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#3113914 9-Aug-2023 19:25

When you have neighbours who deliberately ram and spill your green bin!

(Not the first time!)

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#3113945 9-Aug-2023 21:18

“Wet room” bathrooms. Every f$&king thing gets wet when you have a shower

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#3113952 9-Aug-2023 21:40

That I understand in my head how to ski, but can't overcome my fear of gravity and it's consequences, so I can't do it well.

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#3113986 10-Aug-2023 07:10

This woman wanting to have her conviction quashed because it might affect her future travel and career prospects.

She drove over the AKL Harbour Bridge at over 180kmh whilst drunk and on drugs. She seriously injured two people.

https://stuff.co.nz/national/crime/132704752/drunk-woman-who-drove-180kph-over-harbour-bridge-asks-to-quash-conviction

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#3114020 10-Aug-2023 09:09

Handsomedan: This woman wanting to have her conviction quashed because it might affect her future travel and career prospects.

She drove over the AKL Harbour Bridge at over 180kmh whilst drunk and on drugs. She seriously injured two people.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/132704752/drunk-woman-who-drove-180kph-over-harbour-bridge-asks-to-quash-conviction

Basically "I'd like to be able to do what I want with impunity and zero consequences".
Even more annoyingly, she'll probably get her wish because that seems to be a thing that happens all too often.

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#3114023 10-Aug-2023 09:19

geoffwnz:

Basically "I'd like to be able to do what I want with impunity and zero consequences".
Even more annoyingly, she'll probably get her wish because that seems to be a thing that happens all too often.

It was denied :) It was never an option. She was lucky to get away without prison.

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#3114024 10-Aug-2023 09:20

Being unaware that Luke Combes is in NZ and performing locally to me. I'd have paid the price of admission to see him perform his cover of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

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#3114028 10-Aug-2023 09:30

frankv:

I don't think it's even about making the books look good. Upper management perceive that there's a problem, and need to be seen to be addressing it, so some "live-wire" "make-things-happen" guy is brought in to fix it, because no-one else seems able to make substantial changes. Typically, "fixing things" and a broad buzzword vocabulary are part of the guy's resume.

From his point of view, it's essential that things are seen to change, and the bigger the change the better. He does NOT tell management that things are actually about as good as they can be. So, if the organisation has high fixed costs because they have lots of in-house staff, they're replaced with contractors. If the organisation has high costs due to having lots of contractors, they're replaced by in-house staff. If they develop software themselves, that will be outsourced or replaced with buying a package. If they use one particular application, it will be replaced by a shinier one. In all cases, there will be gushing promises of vast productivity improvements, and in return surprisingly large amounts of cash will surprisingly be available. Once the change has been successfully completed, live-wire guy moves on to another company.

In reality, of course, the problems are usually systemic and often outside the control of the organisation (e.g. Public Service organisations constrained by Govt budgets). That's why no-one else has been able to successfully implement changes. At best, the live-wire has been able to twist management's arm and get funding for something essential that management was preventing. More often, of course, the problems aren't solved at all; the problem is bandaided, or things are worse (due to "teething problems" or "resistance to change" in livewire-speak), so eventually the cycle repeats.

Company has a particular application is business critical but keeps breaking.
Code is identified to be old and unmaintainable (fifteen years of bandaids).
Investment for new system is approved.
Expensive consultants ask business users what functionality is required. Users tell them the same functionality as the old system provides.
Expensive consultants copy and paste the code from the old system to the new system.
?!?!?!?@#?@?$!$@#?!@#

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#3114035 10-Aug-2023 09:59

frankv:

Journeyman:

Ooh, is it cloud based? We love The Cloud these days. Everyone is in The Cloud whether it's actually a good idea or not. Ya gotta be in The Cloud.

The Cloud... the solution to everyone's problems. Just like APIs, web-services, web pages, LANs, servers, SANs, OOD, OOP, .Net, 4GLs, relational databases, databases, GUIs, C++, Pascal, VisualBasic, BASIC, COBOL, CRTs, and keyboards were.

Don't forget Blockchain. Blockchain was going to revolutionise the way we work and solve the world's problems.

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#3114055 10-Aug-2023 10:34

When every piece of advice you've given to your employer has been ignored for 7 months. And when the business finds itself exactly in the position that you were warning it would if they didn't take action earlier they turn to you and ask.

"So how you going to fix it?"

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#3114057 10-Aug-2023 10:35

Zigg:

This annoys and amuses. From a local Facebook group where someone posted an ad for Meat prices from 2002

Order meat from 2002 - it'll be cheaper.

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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#3114070 10-Aug-2023 11:11

Following on from the WWC thread where someone was annoyed at the scant coverage given to the largest sporting event this country will ever see.

Over the last week, the UCI Mountain Biking World Cup has been on.

There's been no mention of it on TV news. At all.
Three of the top three places in the Junior Women's Downhill went to three New Zealanders (NZ Junior Women Clean Sweep of World Cup DH Race)

A CLEAN SWEEP!

Meanwhile we are getting loads of footage of track cycling...

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#3114075 10-Aug-2023 11:18

Senecio:
Don't forget Blockchain. Blockchain was going to revolutionise the way we work and solve the world's problems.

For reference, Crypto is the world's premier cryptography conference and Jon Callas is a well-known cryptographer.

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#3114086 10-Aug-2023 11:41

Handsomedan:

Following on from the WWC thread where someone was annoyed at the scant coverage given to the largest sporting event this country will ever see.

Over the last week, the UCI Mountain Biking World Cup has been on.

There's been no mention of it on TV news. At all.
Three of the top three places in the Junior Women's Downhill went to three New Zealanders (NZ Junior Women Clean Sweep of World Cup DH Race)

A CLEAN SWEEP!

Meanwhile we are getting loads of footage of track cycling...

I was aware of that result, but only from following other media sources (GMBN) and a post on Torpedo7's FB page.
But having been involved in sports other than oval sportsball all my life, I'm used to never seeing coverage of anything else.

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