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

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#3151906 24-Oct-2023 21:02

Don't overreact to the builder's skip bin. Many of them achieve equilibrium and often more gets removed than added. If you're lucky someone will salvage the lengths of timber that you paid for before you see them in the bin.

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#3151909 24-Oct-2023 21:19

Hah that reminds me of when I spotted a guy walking up n down past our house, each time returning with some chunk of lumber that he'd pilfered from one of the large bags out the front of all the new builds at the end of the street.

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#3151913 24-Oct-2023 21:58

Tin openers. Something happened to most canned goods 4-5yrs ago that most of my chepo tin openers do bugger all. I'll try 3 or 4 tin openers on a single can before I can enjoy my beetroot. Pisses me right off!. If I had to guess changes to the can manufacturing process resulting in a slightly thicker/sterner can.

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#3151920 24-Oct-2023 22:23

Behodar:

Handsomedan:

We have a skip bin on our driveway. Apparently it's a communal receptacle. Went back to our place in the weekend to pick some stuff up and noticed the skip on the driveway for the builders to dispose of their waste.

There's a lot more than just the builders' waste from our site in that bin! And the cheeky gits have dumped a couple of old doors on the driveway next to the bin because they wouldn't fit! They weren't ours and when I messaged the builder he said they weren't his either...

I saw something from the States where someone had dumped all their household rubbish in someone's skip. The skip owner found an addressed letter in there, so returned all the "extra" stuff to the offender's front lawn!

Shades of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant".

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#3151922 24-Oct-2023 22:27

MadEngineer: Re: the rubbish - take it out of the bin if you need the space and put it on the grass verge. Call your council and they’ll collect the flytipping.

I hope you're right. Someone dropped a Queen mattress on the grass berm between us and the neighbours. I was going to take it to the dump when I could get around to putting it on the trailer. Having the council pick it up is a much better idea.

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#3151939 25-Oct-2023 00:36

MrBBEye:

Tin openers. Something happened to most canned goods 4-5yrs ago that most of my chepo tin openers do bugger all. I'll try 3 or 4 tin openers on a single can before I can enjoy my beetroot. Pisses me right off!. If I had to guess changes to the can manufacturing process resulting in a slightly thicker/sterner can.

You did mention cheapo tin openers. Any reason you haven't considered buying a tin opener equivalent to the price of 4 cheapo tin openers?

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#3151940 25-Oct-2023 04:09

Journeyman:

MrBBEye:

Tin openers. Something happened to most canned goods 4-5yrs ago that most of my chepo tin openers do bugger all. I'll try 3 or 4 tin openers on a single can before I can enjoy my beetroot. Pisses me right off!. If I had to guess changes to the can manufacturing process resulting in a slightly thicker/sterner can.

You did mention cheapo tin openers. Any reason you haven't considered buying a tin opener equivalent to the price of 4 cheapo tin openers?

Yes. Had problems for years from buying el cheapo openers. They either don’t work properly or break after a few months.

Then about five years ago we bought a decent opener and have never looked back. Do yourself a favour and get an Oxo Good Grips - ‘just works’, first time right around the can and on all can types.

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#3151955 25-Oct-2023 08:11

Rikkitic:

MikeB4:

Sports on news bulletins are appropriate. By definition "information or reports about recent events" Cambridge Dictionary.

I prefer Collins as my authority. It defines event as something unusual or important. Rugby is neither.

Yes indeed... I'm also sick of the "historic" significance assigned some sports event or other. Every event is historic to the extent that it will be recorded and therefore remembered. Apart from that it's just more mindless time-filling verbiage.

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#3151964 25-Oct-2023 09:05

One of these is a complete embarrassment to the automotive world - can you guess which one ?

https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/1996-daihatsu-midget-ii-review-the-antithesis-of-the-american-pickup

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#3151965 25-Oct-2023 09:07

Rikkitic:

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I prefer Collins as my authority...

Would that be Judith 'Crusher' Collins?😜

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3151987 25-Oct-2023 10:37

floydbloke:

richms:

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I went to leave a 1 star review on it and someone left one yesterday. If that was there a week ago it would have saved me this aggravation.

That was me after I read your post. I used a complete bullsh*t email address so I'm surprised it showed up but hey, there it is.

@floydbloke Did you get a response to yours? I don't think they really get the bad labelling part of what they have there.

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#3151998 25-Oct-2023 10:43

richms:

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@floydbloke Did you get a response to yours? I don't think they really get the bad labelling part of what they have there.

@richms If they did reply I won't have seen it because I didn't use a real email address.

Looking at the response they sent you, I wholly agree with you. They don't get it.

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#3151999 25-Oct-2023 10:44

The responses are visible to the public, and only richms' review has a response.

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#3152064 25-Oct-2023 13:36

eracode:

Journeyman:

You did mention cheapo tin openers. Any reason you haven't considered buying a tin opener equivalent to the price of 4 cheapo tin openers?

Yes. Had problems for years from buying el cheapo openers. They either don’t work properly or break after a few months.

Then about five years ago we bought a decent opener and have never looked back. Do yourself a favour and get an Oxo Good Grips - ‘just works’, first time right around the can and on all can types.

Indeed. I even shelled out for this overpriced fancy OXO Good Grips Smooth Edge Can Opener (I got them on special). I hardly ever open tins but I do enjoy the novelty of how it leaves a smooth edge to the tin 😆

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#3152081 25-Oct-2023 14:40

eracode:

Yes. Had problems for years from buying el cheapo openers. They either don’t work properly or break after a few months.

Reminds me of when I bought a can opener from Countdown. Got home and couldn't work out how it was supposed to open a can. Took it back, got a can from the shelf (because I knew they would look at me like I was stupid), took it to customer service and said something along the lines of "if you can open the can I'll buy the can, otherwise I want my money back for the can opener". Four of their staff couldn't work out how to use it either, so I got my money back, which I promptly spent on a more traditional model.

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