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

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#3157696 9-Nov-2023 15:21

Behodar:

Related: Reporting a bug in a piece of software, which was never acknowledged let alone fixed... then a couple of months later they sent me a promotional email about their latest app. The only reason they had my email address was because of the bug report.

Related: Reporting junk mail from real estate agents in our letterbox that is clearly marked No Junk Mail which they apologise for... and add me to their email marketing list so they can spam me.

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#3157697 9-Nov-2023 15:30

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Being in charge of a sports team (tennis in my case), when you need to scrape for fill ins every week. Start of this season has been particularly bad for availability, admittedly some of it self inflicted by me being away on 2 different weekends. The frustration is when you're dealing with young guys who are likely rarely ever without their phone in their hand, but they can't reply to a text asking if they can play in the weekend. As much as I try to get the team confirmed early in the week, I still often end up scrambling to find a final player on Friday.

Being captain of a casual/amateur sports team in the last 5 years has been an exercise in frustration. It's been trying to even get 4 players on the opposing team. Crazy. We had 3 weeks in a row where our opposing team (different team each week) could only field between 0 and 1 player.

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#3157700 9-Nov-2023 15:40

It's doubly frustrating with tennis which you can't play in the rain so there are always games that need to be rescheduled to weeknights or Sundays to fit them in (3 of the first 4 so far this season have been rained out), and it's extremely difficult to find an alternative day of the week that suits all players from both teams. Playing a rescheduled one tonight and I had 4 confirmed but the opposition captain now can't make it and wants to play his singles and doubles on Sunday instead. Fine - our guy who would play the singles can do it, but I can't find anyone else available to play the doubles (I'd happily play it but can't as I'm playing the other doubles in this match) so probably going to have to play this tie over 3 dates!

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#3157931 10-Nov-2023 09:59

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At the end of the show they reveal how much value has been added by the work, e.g. they spend $30,000 on reno and it increases the value by $70,000. But what annoys me no end is that the hosts proclaim this as a $40,000 profit for the home owner.

This isn't a bloody profit unless they sell the house, which they aren't doing!

It's still a profit because they now get to live in a nice $(X+70k) value house instead of a crappy $X value house.

Mind you, the $40k profit value only applies if they value their own time at $0/hr. Which is fine if renovating houses is a hobby that you enjoy so much you would do it for free.

And of course this does rather depend on the absence of a Capital Gains Tax.

I also wonder how many failed renovations end up on the editor's floor.

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#3158444 12-Nov-2023 07:20

Walking round supermarkets here in Portugal and seeing how much higher our prices are, how much more choice there is and worse, how some things I was told by NZ supermarkets were unavailable due to global shortages are not only plentiful but cheap.

One particular brand of French Camembert I like has been very difficult to get for 18 months and last time I saw it for sale it had gone up to $21.

I saw it this morning for the equivalent of $4!!

I realise Portugal is closer to France etc but seriously that’s a ridiculous difference.

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#3158446 12-Nov-2023 08:25

Geektastic: Walking round supermarkets here in Portugal and seeing how much higher our prices are, how much more choice there is and worse, how some things I was told by NZ supermarkets were unavailable due to global shortages are not only plentiful but cheap.

One particular brand of French Camembert I like has been very difficult to get for 18 months and last time I saw it for sale it had gone up to $21.

I saw it this morning for the equivalent of $4!!

I realise Portugal is closer to France etc but seriously that’s a ridiculous difference.

Earlier this year we were on home exchanges and spent a month in Spain and two months in England. We were supermarket shopping and cooking at 'home' in both places. In both countries all food prices were very cheap compared to NZ. Our first shop when we arrived in Hove, England, which would have been about $200 here, was ~£70 ($140 at the time). We thought the supermarket had made a mistake and went through the receipt later to check it.

Cheese was one thing we noticed as being particularly cheap. A whole circle of Castello White which sells here for $23 (New World) was about $9 at Tesco in Hove. Other beautiful cheeses were at similar price ratios. As you say, the tyranny of distance can't fully account for this.

Just before Covid we were in Portugal for two months. Local supermarket sold lovely soft Euro red wines for $4-$5 but that's more understandable.

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#3158453 12-Nov-2023 09:17

New Zealand, the home of cosy duopolies and ripped off consumers.

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#3158466 12-Nov-2023 09:39

Sunstrike off my stainless bench in our kitchen.

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#3158527 12-Nov-2023 11:07

The inability of so many people to use garages for the storage of actual cars.

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#3158545 12-Nov-2023 12:12

Who do I complain to about the fact that its the afternoon already...

Edit - spelling

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#3158665 12-Nov-2023 16:27

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The inability of so many people to use garages for the storage of actual cars.

I used to live in an estate where every house had two cars parked on the drive while the garage was full of unused exercise equipment and boxes full of junk. I used to say to my wife that there was $120K sitting on the drive while the garage was used to house about $3K of crap.

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#3158695 12-Nov-2023 18:15

People writing “for the record” on a forum.

There’s a record, it’s a forum.

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#3158771 13-Nov-2023 08:08

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Rikkitic:

Pam's toilet paper is pathetic. Never again.

As is their frozen flaky puff pastry ( minor crisis in the Floyd household at the moment with Edmonds discontinuing theirs, recommendations for alternatives welcome) and their rolled oats (it's like eating beanbag filling when you make porridge with it).

On the other hand, plenty of other Pam's branded staples in our pantry, milk powder's milk powder, brown sugar's brown sugar (how come you taste so good?).

I usually have Pam's rolled oats so I interpreted this post as "you like what you're used to". Except I bought a new bag yesterday and it tastes completely bland. What have they done to it?!

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#3158783 13-Nov-2023 08:35

rb99:

The inability of so many people to use garages for the storage of actual cars.

Is it OK to have one car in a double garage and the other half full of valuable treasure? Asking for a friend.

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#3158805 13-Nov-2023 08:56

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rb99:

The inability of so many people to use garages for the storage of actual cars.

Is it OK to have one car in a double garage and the other half full of valuable treasure? Asking for a friend.

Your friend is on a most positive and life affirming path, and to help your friend in their quest, I am prepared to help (or volunteer someone else to help) remove some of your friends valuable treasure to a another location far away from temptation completely free of charge.

“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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