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

Forums › Off topic › [Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

1 | ... | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960

Handsomedan

7830 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 7518

ID Verified

Trusted

Subscriber

#3487782 5-May-2026 16:35

Rikkitic:

Handsomedan:

Ticketmaster's awful customer service.

What an atrocious "service" they provide

Didn't they just get the crap sued out of them? I don't recall the exact item but I seem to remember if was fairly brutal.

Wouldn't be the first time.

Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

SepticSceptic

2266 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 792

Trusted

#3487907 5-May-2026 22:41

Handsomedan:

deepred:

Handsomedan:

Ticketmaster's awful customer service.

What an atrocious "service" they provide

Wouldn't expect anything less from a monopolistic megacorp.

After multiple emails, it turns out it's my fault because I didn't do some trouble shooting first.

Apparently, I should have:

Cleared the cache on my phone
Restarted my phone
Try a different device
Update the app
Restart my phone
Check my device compatibility
Clear the app cache
.......

This is just balls.

Many of my parents generation would be absolutely flummoxed with having to do all this jiggery pokery.

Mother in law constantly has these kind of "problems", and she ain't no dummy. She ran the immigration IBM tabulators back in her day.

Handsomedan

7830 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 7518

ID Verified

Trusted

Subscriber

#3488026 6-May-2026 11:33

Misleading stats: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360974925/nz-unemployment-rate-dips-53-auckland-joblessness-soars-10-year-high

Whilst technically speaking, we can state that unemployment figures have dipped, it doesn't paint the whole picture.

I have two adult sons - one of which is a fully qualified/graduated degree-holding sports scientist, who can only get part time work a few hours a week.
The other graduated from film school to try getting work in his industry for 6 moths, before giving up and going back to university to do a second Bachelors degree in a somewhat related field.

Neither of these young adults is technically unemployed. They don't show up in the stats. Neither is gainfully employed in their chosen field and neither of them is working full time.
They live at home, rent-free and work a few hours a week while either studying or looking for more work.
I worry for our youth.

Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

deepred

641 posts

Ultimate Geek
+1 received by user: 556

ID Verified

Trusted

#3488159 6-May-2026 15:56

Handsomedan:

Misleading stats: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360974925/nz-unemployment-rate-dips-53-auckland-joblessness-soars-10-year-high

Whilst technically speaking, we can state that unemployment figures have dipped, it doesn't paint the whole picture.

I have two adult sons - one of which is a fully qualified/graduated degree-holding sports scientist, who can only get part time work a few hours a week.
The other graduated from film school to try getting work in his industry for 6 moths, before giving up and going back to university to do a second Bachelors degree in a somewhat related field.

Neither of these young adults is technically unemployed. They don't show up in the stats. Neither is gainfully employed in their chosen field and neither of them is working full time.
They live at home, rent-free and work a few hours a week while either studying or looking for more work.
I worry for our youth.

The ones that are gainfully employed tend to be in Australia, which is maybe why the unemployment rate isn't higher. Oh the joys of an extractive rentier economy. Or a "housing market with bits tacked on" as Bernard Hickey often refers to it.

"I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." — J. Edgar Hoover

"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

1 | ... | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960