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

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#3478593 7-Apr-2026 08:38

Bung:

Maybe it's time for ypur usual store to expand its range. Both our locals do GF. The one we go to does 10% Gold card discount.

Please also share names and locations...

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#3478656 7-Apr-2026 09:54

cddt:

Bung:

Maybe it's time for ypur usual store to expand its range. Both our locals do GF. The one we go to does 10% Gold card discount.

Please also share names and locations...

I might have to walk that back.

Delish in Seabury Ave Foxton Beach do have a separate fryer for GF.

Mr Grumpy same street closer to beach GF claims may only refer to some salads, not fish & chips.

I prefer the normal crumb but usually tag onto my wife's GF order to save time.

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#3478658 7-Apr-2026 10:06

Autumn leaves from council street trees blowing up our drive.

I have had to put mesh along the bottom of our gate to stop them coming all the way up the drive.

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#3478667 7-Apr-2026 10:38

michaelmurfy:

Handle9: New Zealand is home of the surcharge.

Credit card surcharge, public holiday surcharge, delivery charge….

Experienced this tonight.

Sister in law is celiac so ordered some fish and chips from a store that does Gluten Free however got the rest of our Fish and Chips from our usual store a few doors down (much cheaper normally and better).

Anyway... this Fish and Chip shop is charging 3% credit / PayWave surcharge and made a little fuss when the lady said "We have a 15% Holiday surcharge - is that OK?" to which I said no, it's not and it is not fair to be treating your customers like that.

The other Fish and Chip shop we normally go to - no surcharging at all even on PayWave and cheaper / better quality.

I am constantly amazed that businesses in New Zealand are unable to budget to not have surcharges yet much of the rest of the world functions just fine without them.

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#3478865 7-Apr-2026 16:46

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.

A couple of months later... it's even buggier than I thought it was. I posted a comment on a video on Sunday. On Monday I happened to go back to it and found that a couple of people had replied to it, but I hadn't got any notifications for those replies. Today my comment's not showing up. If I go to my comment history page it shows up there, but clicking through to it leads to a page without the comment.

This seems to be related to the "top comments" feature. Videos now start with comments filtered to "top". In this particular case there are 81 comments but only 22 show up by default. If I change it to "newest", which supposedly shows all comments, it's still limited to 22. Some videos have a "Load More Comments" button, but this one doesn't.

Edit: There are a few Reddit threads about it. It looks like this is a new bug that was introduced in the past couple of days.

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#3478878 7-Apr-2026 17:30

kingdragonfly: I order a small item with a company called "The Lighting Outlet", an Australian company.

It used "dark patterns": user interface designs that trick or manipulate users into doing things.

It asked 4X on a single order if I wanted to subscribe to your marketing newsletter, with the default being yes.

The final straw was I noticed they added shipping "TLO Shipping Protection" without me noticing for $3.48

“TLO Shipping Protection” isn't a standard postal or carrier service. It’s almost certainly a third-party shipping insurance add-on.

Since it's Sunday, and I noticed minutes after the order, I cancelled, with a strongly worded email.

I also posted a negative Google review.

A follow up on this. "The Lighting Outlet", an Australian company. NOte I had cancelled the on-line order

while the stored was closed
within 5 minutes of the order being made
upon seeing third party insurance added without my knowledge

Please note that, as per our cancellation policy, all cancelled orders will be issued as a store credit .

However, on this one occasion, we would be happy to offer you a full refund. Please keep this in mind for future requests.

I asked ChatGPT and here's what it said

Under Australian Consumer Law (ACL), a store generally cannot force you to accept store credit instead of a full refund when they fail to supply the goods, or when the order is cancelled due to a problem on their side — including misleading add‑ons or “dark pattern” charges.

If the order was cancelled within minutes and never fulfilled, you are usually entitled to a full refund to your original payment method, not store credit.

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#3480048 11-Apr-2026 16:11

This is in the "small" category, prepared is better than unprepared... but, years later, they haven't fixed the "multiple emergency alerts" issue yet. I've had the same one three times now. Two of those times I had the phone on me, so it was pretty loud and gave me quite a fright.

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#3480057 11-Apr-2026 17:23

Never faced that issue. Perhaps a case that each carrier issues it and then your phone picks it up three times? What kind of phone?

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#3480059 11-Apr-2026 17:31

It's an iPhone. It's the first time I've run into the issue, but I've seen complaints about it in previous emergencies.

It might be related to swapping towers: it went off once at home, then again when I was driving, and the third time when I was driving back again, on the same stretch of road.

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#3480060 11-Apr-2026 17:34

The small issue I have with them is that you cannot silence them until you dismiss the alert. So I don't end up reading them as I cannot stand the noise and my brain cannot process the words while being blasted with the siren.

There is absolutely no reason not to have "silence" and "ok" as buttons.

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#3480061 11-Apr-2026 17:35

The Power button silences it on my iPhone. Not the most intuitive, but I was mashing them to try to get it to shut up.

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#3480063 11-Apr-2026 17:54

On all my androids pushing the volume down has silenced it. Dual sim means getting it more than once. Thats not the issue is it?

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#3480066 11-Apr-2026 18:01

Three here. Dual SIM some time apart, and then one for the watch with LTE a few minutes later again.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

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#3480067 11-Apr-2026 18:33

Single SIM here.

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#3480097 11-Apr-2026 20:42

Just discovered some cell batteries have a bitter coating on them to make more child safe.

Problem is some devices like Apple AirTag show as the battery being completely dead and won’t work.

At least it’s more child safe I guess, even though it’s in wrapping that is different to get into.

Luckily I managed to remove coating running under warm water, and drying with paper towel. Nearly went to buy new battery thinking had a dud.

online searches suggested sand papering it, rubbing alcohol on it, or baking soda and water.

Sand papering a battery to use it sounds crazy to me, at least I got it working just by running water over it.

As had to remove coating to get it to work, what was point of coating in first place, as once unwrapped will be putting in device straight away.

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