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

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#3287120 27-Sep-2024 18:47

FineWine:

Yes I’m going to say it. That accent would do the opposite for me! It is just so irritating and everyone I’ve spoken to say that it does not induce them to buy, in fact the opposite.

Yet Carl's Jr seems to think people here want to be like Americans, just as if it was 1955!

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#3287121 27-Sep-2024 18:50

Rikkitic:

Yet Carl's Jr seems to think people here want to be like Americans, just as if it was 1955!

Yeah, but their burgers are at least edible. The other 2 major players are just wet sloppy goo.... disgusting.

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#3287485 29-Sep-2024 10:36

Arrived at Sydney airport 40 mins late and being picked up. Wanted to activate roaming while waiting at baggage collection, wifi wouldn’t work, no internet access on the free airport one so couldn’t contact my pick up. Very frustrating having no connection.

Saga continued at destination. Wifi available so activated roaming in the Skinny App using my Wise card, it says success. Check Skinny, no roaming showing. Go to the Wise App. It shows Skinny payment pending. This while everyone waiting for us to go somewhere and tapping their feet.

Contact Wise, they see nothing untoward and blame Skinny. Try to get in touch with Skinny, there’s no number I can call. Go online and try chat. I get the bot. Tell it I want a human. It goes to live chat. Start to type name and shoe size etc, something happens and lose the page. Can’t find it. Start over while the voices in the background are yelling hurry up. Ok will deal with this later.

Next, for the first time ever, the Wise card didn’t work at a cafe where I was generously paying for everyone’s lunch. Left the other cards at home in the bigger bag for safekeeping and took just a purse. Didn’t take the useless phone as no point so no Apple Pay. Back home again and noted phone now had roaming.

Moral of this story, activate roaming before you leave NZ, which I normally do.

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#3287497 29-Sep-2024 11:18

Did you have it disabled or does Skinny not have it on by default?

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3287563 29-Sep-2024 14:23

I've worn contact lenses most of my life so I'm used to dealing with small eye irritants, dust etc. No big deal, usually solved by taking lenses out at the end of the day and wearing my glasses. Past couple of days I've felt like I've got something behind my upper lid, can't see anything (edit, under the lid), never lasts this long.

So I go buy an eye wash, with the little cup to give your eye a rinse. Clearly my eye did not like it and it is quite stingy and still sore an hour later.

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#3287615 29-Sep-2024 14:40

If your eye was already irritated whatever is in the wash might make it worse. Hopefully that is only a temporary reaction.

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#3287641 29-Sep-2024 15:24

mudguard:

I've worn contact lenses most of my life so I'm used to dealing with small eye irritants, dust etc. No big deal, usually solved by taking lenses out at the end of the day and wearing my glasses. Past couple of days I've felt like I've got something behind my upper lid, can't see anything (edit, under the lid), never lasts this long.

So I go buy an eye wash, with the little cup to give your eye a rinse. Clearly my eye did not like it and it is quite stingy and still sore an hour later.

Is your conjunctiva (white area surrounding pupil) veiny red to varying degrees? If so you may have conjunctivitis, pop in to your GP. If it is an infection they may prescribe antibiotic eye drops.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3287762 29-Sep-2024 18:59

FineWine: Is your conjunctiva (white area surrounding pupil) veiny red to varying degrees? If so you may have conjunctivitis, pop in to your GP. If it is an infection they may prescribe antibiotic eye drops.

Other symptoms are feeling there's something grainy and itchy in your eye. The stuff you'll get prescribed is called Chlorafast, you can get it direct at any pharmacy if you want to avoid the cost of a GP visit.

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#3287764 29-Sep-2024 19:05

Light bars on trucks being driven down the highway and trying to xray oncoming traffic ... and yes it was a Ranger :-)

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#3287900 30-Sep-2024 04:56

The seeming impossibility of getting rid of CUPS. Like something from a horror movie it just keeps coming back, reinstalling itself every time you run any kind of update even with it removed, purged, masked, disabled, and whatever else you can do to make it go away.

Edited to add: This is how ridiculous it gets:

> sudo apt purge cups-filters-core-drivers

[...]

The following additional packages will be installed:
cups-client cups-common cups-ipp-utils foomatic-filters libcups2 libpaps0 paps
Suggested packages:
cups cups-bsd
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cups-filters* cups-filters-core-drivers* printer-driver-foo2zjs*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cups-client cups-common foomatic-filters libpaps0 paps
The following packages will be upgraded:
cups-ipp-utils libcups2

So explicitly removing CUPS components actually ends up installing even more CUPS.

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#3287923 30-Sep-2024 08:55

neb:

The seeming impossibility of getting rid of CUPS.

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#3287969 30-Sep-2024 10:18

Things like Mainland Tasty Cheese. Why are we supposed to pay extra for actual flavour ?

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#3288049 30-Sep-2024 11:10

The flavour of cheddar cheese depends on its age. You are paying for the time it's spent in storage developing the "bite" of Tasty cheese.

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#3288057 30-Sep-2024 11:26

Bung:

The flavour of cheddar cheese depends on its age. You are paying for the time it's spent in storage developing the "bite" of Tasty cheese.

I kind of knew that already, but it still annoys me. Do annoyances have to be rational...

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#3288099 30-Sep-2024 12:22

The cupholders in my car - not being the right size or shape for any of the receptacles I use

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