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

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#3152756 27-Oct-2023 14:48

Things that annoy me -

johno1234:

Yep, mine costs $70 ($25 with CSC).

Haven't got $70, just go to A&E, so much cheaper.

Things that annoy me -

the false economy.

“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

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#3152769 27-Oct-2023 15:16

rb99:

Things that annoy me -

johno1234:

Yep, mine costs $70 ($25 with CSC).

Haven't got $70, just go to A&E, so much cheaper.

Things that annoy me -

the false economy.

Sadly this is the outcome - and ensuing day long waits at the ERs.

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#3152773 27-Oct-2023 15:29

kingdragonfly:

Even overnight, the house still stank like a cheap brothel.

Wondering how you know what a cheap brothel smells like. 😇

But we obviously now know what laundry detergent they use.

Now wondering what an expensive brothel smells like and what laundry detergent they use....

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#3152784 27-Oct-2023 16:18

kingdragonfly: I got some bulk Persil laundry detergent. I usually get the "sensitive skin" non-perfumed one, but this was on sale.

Wow it stank up my house with its cheap perfume, just from opening the box.

I washed my bed throw. It was so sickeningly sweet I had I run it through the wash a second time, with just water.

Even overnight, the house still stank like a cheap brothel.

I wound up putting the box contents in a plastic bad, and throwing it away.

I noticed the box was not listed on the Persil website. It said "made in Vietnam" (maybe it all is)

Usually the bulk ones are aimed at people used to putting a soup ladle or 2 in with the wash as well. A friends mother bought giant sacks of the cheap crap and you would get a chalky residue left in pockets and folds of clothes.

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#3153032 28-Oct-2023 13:20

The internet advised a harmless way to get a stain out of wool carpet was vinegar then baking soda. Harmless enough I thought. Wrong. There is now a yellowish orange patch where it’s discoloured the carpet and made it look worse.

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#3153033 28-Oct-2023 13:24

Now you just need to repeat the process on the rest of the carpet so that it matches!

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#3153090 28-Oct-2023 15:22

The internet advised

There's the cause of your problem

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#3153169 28-Oct-2023 18:50

Xbox adverts in Windows11.

An operating system is not an advertising platform.

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#3153234 29-Oct-2023 08:45

kingdragonfly: I noticed the box was not listed on the Persil website. It said "made in Vietnam" (maybe it all is)

Probably is. A box of Persil Ultimate (supposedly their best powder) in supermarket was also made in Vietnam. A different situation from the cheap Finish dishwasher tablets that seem to be parallel imported from Eastern Europe.

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#3153235 29-Oct-2023 09:05

rb99:

Things that annoy me -

johno1234:

Yep, mine costs $70 ($25 with CSC).

Haven't got $70, just go to A&E, so much cheaper.

Things that annoy me -

the false economy.

You're lucky if you've got a 'free' ED.

The EDs at least at Porirua and at Whanganui Hospitals are both combined with sort-of after hours medical care (so they're "Accident & Medical" clinics) - there's no other after hours medical service in either place.
If you present with what they assess as a non-emergency medical condition, you get a bill. IIRC the one time I took a teenage child to the Porirua hospital ED, it cost me $100.

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#3153247 29-Oct-2023 10:28

Police 105 report page. You must fill it out that someone has actually stolen something, despite the previous page selecting an option that an attempt was made.

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#3153250 29-Oct-2023 10:35

TMOs…

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#3153272 29-Oct-2023 11:14

Lack of discipline.

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#3153397 29-Oct-2023 14:43

MadEngineer:

Xbox adverts in Windows11.

An operating system is not an advertising platform.

This x1000.

Candy Crush advertising in Windows 10... eventually managed to remove the flashing item from the start menu and then the next update added it back in.

Definitely was a factor (but far from the only one) in my decision to ditch Windows at home ~7 years ago.

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#3153479 29-Oct-2023 22:38

In an effort to try to use non-Google products, I've been using Bing as my primary search engine recently. Alas, in the past week or two Microsoft has decided to make Bing as aggravating to use as possible: you do a search and it shows the results, then about two seconds later it auto-scrolls the results out of view as it directs you to the "AI" chatbot at the bottom of the page.

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