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

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#3407647 26-Aug-2025 19:07

MikeB4:

This annoys me and and it's my fault. Subscriptions. Now that I am back in the living I decided to review my subscriptions. It is scary how they grow in number by stealth. There are some that we have not used in a long time but still paying. The cost per month was a shock.

a regular combing of our credit card statements has helped us out with a similar infestation. Trying to stick to one sub at a time but occasionally opt into Apple+/Amazon etc for a month to binge watch some specific series. They make it easy to get in but much harder to get out!

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#3407657 26-Aug-2025 19:55

johno1234:

TVNZ self advertising in gaps in the 6pm news. A stationary image of other shows with irritating rinkidinky organ music. Can be skipped over with fast forward.

Just as we did with VHS recordings back in the day.

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"Create a society that values material things above all else. Strip it of industry. Raise taxes for the poor and reduce them for the rich and for corporations. Prop up failed financial institutions with public money. Ask for more tax, while vastly reducing public services. Put adverts everywhere, regardless of people's ability to afford the things they advertise. Allow the cost of food and housing to eclipse people's ability to pay for them. Light blue touch paper." — Andrew Maxwell

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#3408066 28-Aug-2025 12:11

For the last couple of weeks, maybe more, I am getting deluged with various emails telling me my cloud storage is about to get deleted, my photos are all going to disappear, yada yada yada. Stupid, obvious fishing scam that wouldn't fool anyone. You'd think Microsoft could easily filter these out. I keep marking them as spam/phishing but still they come...

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#3408069 28-Aug-2025 12:56

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For the last couple of weeks, maybe more, I am getting deluged with various emails telling me my cloud storage is about to get deleted, my photos are all going to disappear, yada yada yada. Stupid, obvious fishing scam that wouldn't fool anyone. You'd think Microsoft could easily filter these out. I keep marking them as spam/phishing but still they come...

the problem is they do fool people or they wouldn't keep doing them

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3408086 28-Aug-2025 13:17

When your medical consultant doesnt reply to your emails.

Apparently because they went into the junk folder.

What medical facility does not whitelist the email addresses of their own patients??!!

Also, apparently didnt even check the junk folder for over a month, which is just plain lazy or incompetent or both.

Delete cookies?! Are you insane?!

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#3408176 28-Aug-2025 16:06

I can't stand Neil deGrasse Tyson. I can't stand everything about him. I can't stand his irritating voice. I can't stand the way he guffaws at nothing. I can't stand the way he looks and I can't stand the cringy way he behaves. This frustrates me because I like popular science. I enjoy learning about scientific concepts in lay person's language. I ADORED Carl Sagan. In his honour I forced myself to sit through Tyson's updated version of Cosmos. It wasn't too awful. Tyson does seem to know his stuff and he is barely tolerable when he confines himself to straighforward narration. But when he tries to appeal to 'ordinary folks', he nauseates me. He is not funny. He is not lovable. He is not one of the cool kids. He is not Carl Sagan and he certainly is not Brian Cox. I find his efforts oafish and forced. The harder he tries, the more he grates.

Or maybe it is just me. I don't know. I just know I can't wait until someone replaces him as a populariser of modern science.

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#3408198 28-Aug-2025 16:50

Rikkitic:

I can't stand Neil deGrasse Tyson. I can't stand everything about him. I can't stand his irritating voice. I can't stand the way he guffaws at nothing. I can't stand the way he looks and I can't stand the cringy way he behaves. This frustrates me because I like popular science. I enjoy learning about scientific concepts in lay person's language. I ADORED Carl Sagan. In his honour I forced myself to sit through Tyson's updated version of Cosmos. It wasn't too awful. Tyson does seem to know his stuff and he is barely tolerable when he confines himself to straighforward narration. But when he tries to appeal to 'ordinary folks', he nauseates me. He is not funny. He is not lovable. He is not one of the cool kids. He is not Carl Sagan and he certainly is not Brian Cox. I find his efforts oafish and forced. The harder he tries, the more he grates.

Or maybe it is just me. I don't know. I just know I can't wait until someone replaces him as a populariser of modern science.

I dont mind him, although I don't see him much on TV. IMO you and I probably know quite a lot about the Universe as we find it interesting. Not ideal for us, perhaps a good for for newbies. Having said that Brian Cox works for knowledgeable and newbies in my opinion

I guess its the same fate as other content, an over emphasis on "tainment" than enjoyable learning

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#3408199 28-Aug-2025 17:08

Rikkitic:

I can't stand Neil deGrasse Tyson. I can't stand everything about him. I can't stand his irritating voice. I can't stand the way he guffaws at nothing. I can't stand the way he looks and I can't stand the cringy way he behaves. This frustrates me because I like popular science. I enjoy learning about scientific concepts in lay person's language. I ADORED Carl Sagan. In his honour I forced myself to sit through Tyson's updated version of Cosmos. It wasn't too awful. Tyson does seem to know his stuff and he is barely tolerable when he confines himself to straighforward narration. But when he tries to appeal to 'ordinary folks', he nauseates me. He is not funny. He is not lovable. He is not one of the cool kids. He is not Carl Sagan and he certainly is not Brian Cox. I find his efforts oafish and forced. The harder he tries, the more he grates.

Or maybe it is just me. I don't know. I just know I can't wait until someone replaces him as a populariser of modern science.

Not just you.

I initially liked him but as I saw more of him I began to dislike him. He's got a certain arrogance about him. He thinks the story is as much about his faultless wonderfulness as it is about the viewer's enjoyment of the science. Science is not perfect and we get stuff wrong. We're constantly moving forward in areas like quantum physics and realising some truths were not. Well that's my theory anyway.

And if anyone starts telling me that "science is settled" and that something can be proven by consensus then they need to learn a little history to go with their 'science'.

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#3408201 28-Aug-2025 17:16

The Apple TV remote's ability to get lost especially in sofas.

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

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#3408202 28-Aug-2025 17:25

MikeB4:

The Apple TV remote's ability to get lost especially in sofas.

Trade me sell silicone covers for them in bright colours. That’ll make it anti slip and you may be able to attach a ribbon to it and clip it to something. They really are too small and slippery.

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#3408203 28-Aug-2025 17:27

MikeB4:

The Apple TV remote's ability to get lost especially in sofas.

I get you

Do you use an iPhone? I use the Remote on that, left down swipe on top right of home screen. Its a nice upgrade for typing and swiping

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#3408217 28-Aug-2025 18:20

MikeB4:

The Apple TV remote's ability to get lost especially in sofas.

I bought ~$2 silicon covers from Aliexpress for our ATV remotes. They don’t add much bulk but make them a lot less slippery. Fluorescent colour options also them make easier to find.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3408218 28-Aug-2025 18:27

MikeB4:

The Apple TV remote's ability to get lost especially in sofas.

From the TV remote app on the iPhone you can select the ATV and use it to find the remote. Shows as you are getting nearer or further away.

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#3408230 28-Aug-2025 19:51

MikeB4:

The Apple TV remote's ability to get lost especially in sofas.

Did you know… If you have an Apple phone you can use Apple’s precision finding technology to guide you to the remote!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108371

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#3408380 29-Aug-2025 08:43

Getting sick on a work trip and sleeping like crap. It sucks when it’s 4 nights in a row.

I’m looking forward to getting home but not so much to six hours on a plane tomorrow

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