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

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#3368446 29-Apr-2025 09:12

@gzt Thanks that, sounds like a sensible option to start with. Have been rather sick since returning and just not up to much so ignored it all. Tomorrow will give your suggestions a try before I call the dealer and need to do a major furniture removal for access.

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#3368447 29-Apr-2025 09:14

Going through the express lane at Mt Smart Stadium (for AFC members) and the scanners not working properly, so it taking longer to get in than our friends who were not members and waited in a long queue.

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#3368682 29-Apr-2025 12:49

Whenever there is a weather event warned for Canterbury (May apply to other regions) the weather radar for that region is offline!

I wonder if it will be working for the next couple of days?

(The "infill" coverage sucks big time....we are having heavy showers on an off while the coverage for here shows "no weather"!)

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#3369546 1-May-2025 14:10

This wind! So noisy and wild. I definitely want to buy an anemometer. It’s like a hurricane up here.

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#3369564 1-May-2025 15:32

Retailers that advertise an item on sale for same day click and collect (for the princely sum of $3 for me to pick the item up), then fail to provide said item on that day because their stock levels are incorrect and they will need to provide them from another location within the next 3-5 working days.

Rebel Sport - this is not the first time I have been bitten by you. More fool me for continuing to shop with you.

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#3369567 1-May-2025 15:34

Handsomedan:

for the princely sum of $3 for me to pick the item up

Sounds like Rebel Sport.

Handsomedan:

Rebel Sport - this is not the first time I have been bitten by you.

Ah, there we go.

I had the opposite problem, to an extent. Website showed the item as not in stock, so I paid $3 to pick up two of them. When I went to pick them up a couple of days later they'd only ordered one in, because they already had one on the shelf.

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#3369575 1-May-2025 15:46

I don't get how a store can justify charging for Click and Collect? Is it only Rebel (and Briscoes) that do it?

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#3369579 1-May-2025 15:49

I don't know whether this is still the case, but at one point Briscoes would charge you for the courier if you ordered something via the website for home delivery... but if you did the order in the shop then delivery would be free. It seems to be a tactic to draw you into the shop.

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#3369590 1-May-2025 16:28

trig42:

I don't get how a store can justify charging for Click and Collect? Is it only Rebel (and Briscoes) that do it?

I don't think they're the only ones, no.

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#3369611 1-May-2025 18:17

I've been noticing an increasing period of visual spam at the start of movies over the last wee while. I watched a movie the other night and counter SIX ads for companies associated with the production.

Frankly I don't care who made it and if you think you need a credit for it because you did something, put your name at the end with everyone else. Let me watch my movie in peace.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3369612 1-May-2025 18:19

Back in the old days all the credits were at the start, then they moved them to the end because they were becoming too long. Now they're cluttering up the start again!

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#3369627 1-May-2025 20:05

“Person in the street” interviews on TV news.
It’s far too small a sample to be informative about public opinion. People with unpopular opinions will be reticent to express them. And most of all there’s a likelihood that the reporter will choose ones that support their own views or oppose the views they oppose.
It’s as bad as the news schtick where the newsreader interviews the reporter. Overproduced scripted dreck for the brain dead masses.
God the media brings out the curmudgeonly worst in me.

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#3369678 2-May-2025 09:17

Three News running a story about a "rare threat to life wind warning" (their exact words) that was issued for Wellington and then having their reporter stand outside just to prove that it was indeed windy in Wellington. Couldn't understand anything the reporter said even though he was yelling into his microphone while battling to stand upright. Why do TV news make their reporters risk their lives like this? Happens every time there's bad weather.

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#3369680 2-May-2025 09:34

MurrayM:

Three News running a story about a "rare threat to life wind warning" (their exact words) that was issued for Wellington and then having their reporter stand outside just to prove that it was indeed windy in Wellington. Couldn't understand anything the reporter said even though he was yelling into his microphone while battling to stand upright. Why do TV news make their reporters risk their lives like this? Happens every time there's bad weather.

Its one of those live cross things that consumers of old media expect to see. Same as how they will cross to standing outside a building where somehting happened to tell you the same things that the person in the studio just told you. Legacy media is painful and they wonder why they fail online repeating the same tropes.

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