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

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#3461247 13-Feb-2026 15:43

Handsomedan:

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.

I used to wear jandals when I was a kid, and probably when I was a teenager, but once I "grew up" I stopped wearing them. Eventually I got a new pair when I was about 30 and it took me a surprisingly long time to re-learn how to walk in them.

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#3461328 13-Feb-2026 16:47

Senecio:

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.

New Zealand really is quite easy compared to some other markets. Everything here in Dubai is done with bank cheques and requires attendance in person. It's painful.

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#3461338 13-Feb-2026 19:08

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networkn:

BMW trying to charge me $1200 to replace the door and boot seals in my 5 year old car. LOL. That's a hard no from me dawg, have you heard of the CGA?

The myth that expensive German cars = premium quality and premium service has been dead for a long time. It’s one of the reasons the German automotive industry is falling apart.

So it looks like brand snobbery is propping them up these days, just like with Range Rover & Jeep.

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#3461397 14-Feb-2026 09:33

YouTube's comment system. If your comment fails to post for whatever reason, you won't know. From what I can tell it does two things asynchronously: it updates your local comment list with your new comment, and it posts it to the database. If the latter fails then it'll look like your comment posted successfully, until you either reload the page or look at your comment history.

I've seen this happen a few times now, so it must be a fairly common problem, but it's been happening for years.

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#3461407 14-Feb-2026 10:43

Real Me . Who the #@$& coded that abomination

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

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#3461408 14-Feb-2026 10:49

MikeB4:

RealMe. Who the #@$& coded that abomination?

The gumint.

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

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#3461413 14-Feb-2026 11:04

MikeB4:

Real Me . Who the #@$& coded that abomination

Remember that the govt is the one where each department gets their own customer database that you have to update all of them individually. At least they seem to have at some point connected the car rego to the drivers license one, but that doesnt seem to help the AT fines who have their own list of where to send the fines despite NZTA having the correct addresses.

So just one more place to store your details is a no brainer for them.

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#3461499 14-Feb-2026 18:54

cddt:

Annoyance: people who don't read an error message before sending it to you.

Yo, I got this email bounced back. Is this something you can fix? I need you to release this now.

Reporting MTA NOT.OUR.MAILSERVER.COM
Recipient SOMEDUDE@NOT.OUR.MAILSERVER.COM
ERROR CODE 550: YOUR EMAIL EXCEEDS 20MB

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3461500 14-Feb-2026 18:57

Behodar:

YouTube's comment system. If your comment fails to post for whatever reason, you won't know. From what I can tell it does two things asynchronously: it updates your local comment list with your new comment, and it posts it to the database. If the latter fails then it'll look like your comment posted successfully, until you either reload the page or look at your comment history.

I've seen this happen a few times now, so it must be a fairly common problem, but it's been happening for years.

I think it's something to do with the automatic filtering that may be applied? Sometimes a youtuber will have keywords automatically flagged, preventing them from being posted.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3461508 14-Feb-2026 20:14

If it's failing on purpose and not giving an error message then that's even worse. I can sort of understand an unexpected problem not having error detection, but an expected one?

Although in this particular case I can't imagine that anything in my message would have tripped a filter.

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#3461574 14-Feb-2026 23:11

MadEngineer:

cddt:

Annoyance: people who don't read an error message before sending it to you.

Yo, I got this email bounced back. Is this something you can fix? I need you to release this now.

Reporting MTA NOT.OUR.MAILSERVER.COM
Recipient SOMEDUDE@NOT.OUR.MAILSERVER.COM
ERROR CODE 550: YOUR EMAIL EXCEEDS 20MB

I agree, though people sending these sized files would probably be from the coloured pencil department, and may have little idea how email works, or what a MB, Hz, or a lightyear is.. it's not in their purview.

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#3461587 15-Feb-2026 08:10

Someone told our coloured pencil department that SVG files are good for websites. So when I asked for a header image for a page I was making, I received a 20-something MB near-photorealistic SVG that took around four minutes to render.

I made a set of PNGs from it for different resolutions and then got "but you should be using SVG". At that point I put the SVG on there and asked them to approve the page. They let me switch back to the PNGs.

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#3461596 15-Feb-2026 09:25

Tried to login into Genesis Energy to use some of my free hours to heat the meat... Login unavailable until about 1PM - the message's been there since 9AM yesterday...

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#3461598 15-Feb-2026 09:35

freitasm:

Tried to login into Genesis Energy to use some of my free hours to heat the meat... Login unavailable until about 1PM - the message's been there since 9AM yesterday...

Genesis Energy IQ app working fine for me this morning. Just ordered a gas bottle.

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#3461606 15-Feb-2026 10:28

Having poo spray blowing on our homes on the Wellington South Coast. Not looking forward to the evening when it hits gale force.

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