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

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#3210518 25-Mar-2024 12:26

What am I annoyed at today?

The fact that I woke up feeling annoyed. Not at anything in particular, but in general.
First two meetings of the day increased my annoyance, to the point that I am near incandescent with rage at the present time and I still do not really know why.

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#3210521 25-Mar-2024 12:30

johno1234:

Do they have any legal standing at all? I suspect not.

Why would cyclists, who can be rather slow to pull away and usually slower than cars, get priority anyway? The roads are paid for out of fuel taxes and RUC charges, not lycra clad cycling warriors.

And before the cycling lobby dog piles on me about rules... cyclists don't obey them either and often treat red lights and pedestrian crossings as cycling go signs.

Info for you, cyclists pay taxes. My wife (and previous life me) is a cyclist. We also own motor vehicles. We pay RUCs, Rates and the high level income tax. Cycles at the front aids traffic, makes it safer for them as they are more visible, also traffic lights are not the start lights at a drag strip and a delay of about a second or two is not life changing.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3210522 25-Mar-2024 12:32

johno1234:

Do they have any legal standing at all? I suspect not.

Why would cyclists, who can be rather slow to pull away and usually slower than cars, get priority anyway? The roads are paid for out of fuel taxes and RUC charges, not lycra clad cycling warriors.

And before the cycling lobby dog piles on me about rules... cyclists don't obey them either and often treat red lights and pedestrian crossings as cycling go signs.

I don't cycle. Even in Amsterdam I rarely did. But this stupid resentment of cyclists by car freaks gets very tiresome. The issue isn't how they behave. It's how you behave. Screaming they hit you back first is the behaviour of a three year-old. Grow up and get over it.

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#3210526 25-Mar-2024 12:51

Handsomedan:

What am I annoyed at today?

The fact that I woke up feeling annoyed. Not at anything in particular, but in general.
First two meetings of the day increased my annoyance, to the point that I am near incandescent with rage at the present time and I still do not really know why.

Meetings bloody meetings generate a high incidence of fully justified rage, especially and not limited to are meetings for meetings sake and meetings to decide the format and agenda for the next or actual meeting. I so don't miss that in my retirement. I do however see the symptoms present in my wife at circa 6.30pm to 7.30pm when she gets home. I have usually activated defence and mitigation procedures prior arrival

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3210540 25-Mar-2024 13:13

The MediaWorks data breach on RNZ. Oh look, there is a picture of someone in a hoody at a computer. He must be a BAD GUY because only bad guys wear hoodies. Thanks RNZ. The next time I meet a scammer I will look to see if he is wearing a hoody (it is always a he; women obviously don't know how to hack and they never wear hoodies!)

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#3210541 25-Mar-2024 13:14

Senecio:

Maybe this should be posted in the random questions thread, but it does annoy me.

Why do some people pull up and stop 2-3 metres before the line at red lights? Often not even far enough to trigger the induction loop so the lights don't know anyone is there. The oblivious person sits there with a queue of frustrated drivers building behind them.

Morons cutting the corner is why.

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#3210544 25-Mar-2024 13:18

richms:

Morons cutting the corner is why.

Yep, especially buses

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#3210548 25-Mar-2024 13:32

Handsomedan:

What am I annoyed at today?

The fact that I woke up feeling annoyed. Not at anything in particular, but in general.
First two meetings of the day increased my annoyance, to the point that I am near incandescent with rage at the present time and I still do not really know why.

You've probably seen me talk about this a couple of times here.

For a while I noticed that by the time I got to work, my irritability levels were already say a 3-4/10. By the time I got home, I was usually, a 6-7 and by bedtime sometimes more than that.

Over the 2022/2023 xmas break, I went and made a list of all the things that were bothering me, from stupid little things like cables sticking out of something, to pots that small rust marks, to not having the cup I like to drink my tea in clean, every little negative thing, and then set about sorting them all out. It probably cost me about $500 to get it sorted, along with various discussions around how things could be done. I encouraged the rest of my family to do it.

The positive impact that has had on my mental health and that of my family as we all did it, as been noticeable.

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#3210549 25-Mar-2024 13:37

MikeB4:

Meetings bloody meetings generate a high incidence of fully justified rage, especially and not limited to are meetings for meetings sake and meetings to decide the format and agenda for the next or actual meeting. I so don't miss that in my retirement. I do however see the symptoms present in my wife at circa 6.30pm to 7.30pm when she gets home. I have usually activated defence and mitigation procedures prior arrival

There is a whole movement in my industry aimed at 'could this meeting, have been an email?'

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#3210551 25-Mar-2024 13:46

A bout of OCD - Obsessive Courier Disorder.

Wonder if it moved since yesterday - I'll just have quick check.

Wonder if it moved since this morning - I'll just have quick check.

Wonder if it moved since lunchtime - I'll just have quick check.

Wonder if it moved since this afternoon - I'll just have quick check.

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#3210552 25-Mar-2024 13:49

rb99:

A bout of OCD - Obsessive Courier Disorder.

Wonder how many times he'll be back to check the spelling and punctuation.

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#3210554 25-Mar-2024 13:53

MadEngineer: To quickly convert cells that show a percentage to a normal number I enter “100” into a spare cell, copy it, select the range that needs to be converted and multiply them by special, multiply. I do this all day everyday and it takes a fraction of a second for the muscle memory in my fingers to run that, aided by the little menu button on the keyboard which is equivalent to shift-f10.

Huh, amateur hour. A professional conslutant would create a process where you import the Excel spreadsheet into a Word document, run a VBA macro to make the replacement, print it out, OCR it into a PDF, convert the PDF to Word, and then extract the Excel spreadsheet back out again.

That'll be $600 + travel + meals + callout fee.

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#3210555 25-Mar-2024 13:56

SirHumphreyAppleby:

rb99:

A bout of OCD - Obsessive Courier Disorder.

Wonder how many times he'll be back to check the spelling and punctuation.

Not to be confused with spelling and punctuality.

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#3210556 25-Mar-2024 13:56

SirHumphreyAppleby:

rb99:

A bout of OCD - Obsessive Courier Disorder.

Wonder how many times he'll be back to check the spelling and punctuation.

As we all know, 5 times is never enough.

Well maybe not 5, its an odd number, don't like odd numbers, quite like 8 or 12 though...

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#3210565 25-Mar-2024 14:03

rb99:
As we all know, 5 times is never enough.

As the Principia Discordia tells us, five is the perfect number of times:

The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5.

The Law of Fives is never wrong.

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