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

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#3460841 12-Feb-2026 08:14

Handle9:

Everything to do with buying and selling property is incredibly annoying.

Don't remind me, our place in Auckland will be on the market next week. I'm not looking forward to it but it is necessary.

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#3460859 12-Feb-2026 09:04

The ridiculously long wait between episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Makes it hard to stay enthused and I now realise that I should have waited to watch the whole thing when it had all dropped.

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#3460865 12-Feb-2026 09:28

Things like this -

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points

I realise its very far away from small, but the idiots in charge (and one in particular) sure seem to be in yeah whatever mode.

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#3460976 12-Feb-2026 12:41

PolicyGuy:

Using only the cable that comes with the device is the only sensible method most of the time. It does require labelling which I rarely do.

And then there are the product designers who say "USB sockets are cheap, let us use them for everything" - like the Jaycar walkie talkies with a 9V mini-USB plugpack. And the Chinese IOT devices with all the sensor inputs plus power on a USB-C socket. Or a TTL serial console on a micro-USB.

Special mention for all the products with USB-A female sockets REQUIRING an illegal A-A cable to use them - but look, they're cheap too!

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#3460979 12-Feb-2026 12:54

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/feeling-hounded-barking-dog-row-in-clive-leaves-owner-afraid-to-leave-home/NDRRAJWEHJGQZMK4MTPZ3SWBTQ/

Impossible to know but I suspect this owner is an arse-hat. There's nothing worse than having a neighbour leave their dog at home alone all day and it whines, yelps and screeches constantly. Absolutely horrific for the neighbours.

Jack Russells would be in that class of energetic, frenetic yippy small dogs that would screech when left alone. We've had a problem with a neighbour's dog but chatted with them and they now keep their dog inside when not at home the problem completely went away.

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#3460987 12-Feb-2026 13:22

Can't be nice for the dog either. It is trying to tell you something with all that barking. People who can't or won't care for their animals properly shouldn't have them.

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#3460990 12-Feb-2026 13:30

Rikkitic:

Can't be nice for the dog either. It is trying to tell you something with all that barking. People who can't or won't care for their animals properly shouldn't have them.

Agreed. In our neighbour's case the dog would go berserk whenever it saw, heard or sensed someone. So if we went outside to hang the washing it would go off. Generally there would be something most of the time to set it off. Once it was left inside it would be blissfully unaware.

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#3460995 12-Feb-2026 13:46

johno1234:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/feeling-hounded-barking-dog-row-in-clive-leaves-owner-afraid-to-leave-home/NDRRAJWEHJGQZMK4MTPZ3SWBTQ/

Impossible to know but I suspect this owner is an arse-hat. There's nothing worse than having a neighbour leave their dog at home alone all day and it whines, yelps and screeches constantly. Absolutely horrific for the neighbours.

Jack Russells would be in that class of energetic, frenetic yippy small dogs that would screech when left alone. We've had a problem with a neighbour's dog but chatted with them and they now keep their dog inside when not at home the problem completely went away.

We have a local on the community pages complaining that people on the footpath are winding her dog up. Honestly having been working from home off and on (when not having to travel) it is the second worst noise behind a baby crying. No wonder people buy those sonic devices.

To be clear, we don't have any noisy dogs where I live. Well one that's unusually piercing as the equally loud yell from the owner telling it to shut up. But it's usually not allowed on the street facing side of the house.

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#3461051 12-Feb-2026 17:40

Just got the One NZ fibre upgrade from HFC at 3pm. Worked great, then two hours later it switched off a couple times. I’ve recycled the router and hoping it will keep stable. Is this normal after being upgraded.

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#3461122 13-Feb-2026 05:25

Eva888:

Just got the One NZ fibre upgrade from HFC at 3pm. Worked great, then two hours later it switched off a couple times. I’ve recycled the router and hoping it will keep stable. Is this normal after being upgraded.

No.

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#3461134 13-Feb-2026 07:21

I had to ring the council for a neighbours barking dog last week - it was barking from 6pm through to midnight when I first called, then again at 1am. I had it recorded on camera. Small dog with a horrid high pitched yeet yeet yeet sound. The barking was alerting the entire neighbourhood that the owners weren’t at home.

Council called me the next morning and said the owners are getting a vibrating collar.

What was equally annoying is that their property is fully fenced to the boundary with no way to knock on their door. Greeting a neighbour with a letter just isn’t my style.

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#3461148 13-Feb-2026 09:21

There's a small park/playground along the road from where I live. It's fenced with a couple of kid-proof gates and is enjoyed by many people with small children. I was upset to see yesterday that both gates have been destroyed by someone bouncing up and down on them. Also the door to the book-exchange box, also widely used, had been ripped of then smashed up. I hate to see community assets like this being vandalized.

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#3461193 13-Feb-2026 12:14

People wearing jandels/sandels ( or just in general ) and scuffing their feet on the ground.
Dam it people lift your feet when you walk,

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#3461197 13-Feb-2026 12:26

heretohelp:

People wearing jandels/sandels ( or just in general ) and scuffing their feet on the ground.
Dam it people lift your feet when you walk,

Reminds me of my youngest son, when he wore Jandals for the very first time - he had no idea how to walk in them, so he shuffled along like his legs didn't work from the knee down.
It was hilarious. He must've been about 3 years old.

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#3461245 13-Feb-2026 15:41

Some of you might be aware of Gemini, which has been around since 2019. A client called Lagrange has been available for desktop platforms since 2020, and the developer has recently made an iOS version.

The annoyance is that Apple rejected it from the App Store, apparently claiming that people will find it "confusing" now that Google has usurped the name for its LLM (which happened in 2024). The Lagrange developer ended up having to call it a "smallnet browser" instead of a "Gemini browser". Apple allowed the term "geminispace" on the product page, but the App Store's search function refuses to look for it.

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