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

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#3483459 23-Apr-2026 13:01

Wow. Finally some blue forecasts -

and even more wow, its blue in real life as well. Still goes to freeze my assets off tonight (and tomorrow, and...) though apparently.

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#3483470 23-Apr-2026 13:49

Eva888:

There I was in lying in bed in agony last night thinking about @Handsomedan. Jaw to ear painful as a hammer blow on a thumb. Took ages for painkillers to kick in. Pain disappears for a day then comes back with a vengeance so you keep hoping it’s improved.

Mine is definitely from an infected nerve under a tooth as it was X-rayed last Friday and dentist could see it. Can bite perfectly on it and no outward sign except excruciating pain that radiates. Get a dental X-ray on the side that hurts, no needles involved :) Haven’t been able to get mine fixed because dentist was flooded out all week, but going today and likely having it removed.

If you need a stop-gap to get you through to your appointment - Nyal Toothache Drops have been recommended to me and I have to say - MIRACULOUS!

A couple of drops on a cotton bud then dabbed onto the tooth and gum - instant numbness.

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#3483489 23-Apr-2026 14:14

My good arm is starting to fail.

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

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#3483501 23-Apr-2026 14:46

MikeB4:

My good arm is starting to fail.

That's... annoying.

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#3483546 23-Apr-2026 15:33

October 2025 my elderly father got taken into permanent hospital care and we put his house on the market.

Mid-February 2026 the property sold, dad died not long after. I duly informed all the relevant organisations of his passing, including the council.

26 March was settlement and the new owners took possession, all done through the lawyers with all rates and water accounts pro-rata'd and settled.

The annoying bit: today I received a rates bill from that council for the April-June quarter in dad's name.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3483594 23-Apr-2026 19:49

Online forms set up so that if you hit return with the intention of writing a new paragraph it submits the form instead.

Looking at you, Spark!!

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#3483600 23-Apr-2026 20:25

Alt + Enter (Windows) or Option + Return (Mac)

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#3483663 24-Apr-2026 10:17

Specialist emails an appointment. Am advised that on arrival a photo will be taken.

Over my dead body. Why do they need my photo for their files… so that any hacker has not only my name address, birth date and complete medical history but now a photo of me to boot.

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#3483696 24-Apr-2026 11:46

Have you asked them why the photo is needed?

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#3483699 24-Apr-2026 12:04

k1w1k1d:

Have you asked them why the photo is needed?

I will when I arrive and fill out the form on Tuesday. There is no medical reason a photo of me is needed. It’s a tooth.

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#3483746 24-Apr-2026 14:54

Eva888:

k1w1k1d:

Have you asked them why the photo is needed?

I will when I arrive and fill out the form on Tuesday. There is no medical reason a photo of me is needed. It’s a tooth.

I would only probably get suspicious after they say, "Now whip off the clothes and sit there, with the fruit bowl".

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#3483756 24-Apr-2026 15:38

I'm annoyed that I have to have a tooth removed, because it's cracked.

As I am so needle-phobic, I have to be referred to a specialist surgeon that can do the extraction under a general anaesthetic, which means I have to make do over the next few days (long weekend of eating on one side of the mouth and a cocktail of painkillers).

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#3483803 24-Apr-2026 19:17

Eva888:There is no medical reason a photo of me is needed. It’s a tooth.

Probably taking a photo of the tooth with a specialist camera. That would be quite normal.

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#3483830 24-Apr-2026 21:46

That today's youth no longer address me with the polite "Sie" (formal "you"), but simply use the informal "Du" (informal "you"). As if I'd ever herded pigs with them. 😁

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#3483831 24-Apr-2026 21:59

Tinkerisk:

That today's youth no longer address me with the polite "Sie" (formal "you"), but simply use the informal "Du" (informal "you"). As if I'd ever herded pigs with them. 😁

In Brazil pretty much everywhere people use "você" (you) instead of "tu" (you). Except in the Rio Grande do Sul state. It's very different and other people are surprised when they hear a gaúcho (someone born in the Rio Grande do Sul, also the pampas cowboy) use "tu".

But then, the state was always different, and have heavy Italian and German immigrants influence, so the more European Portuguese "tu" is preferred there.

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