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

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#2605849 18-Nov-2020 09:26

Products where you cannot just easily sign up for a trial, they force you to go through their sales people.

This sometimes takes days and even if you don't proceed with the product they keep calling and emailing you for months.

I also started to get very annoyed of video only articles where they type some meaningless intro and wants you to view the video for 30 minutes.

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#2605886 18-Nov-2020 10:23

Windows 10 Photos. Oh how I hate thee. Gleefully the future brings a day when I leave thee forever behind lite the fading memory of a bad dream. The M1 will end our torrid affair and Windows 10 Photos and its host shall no more sully these fine walls.

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#2605890 18-Nov-2020 10:28

That Ministers of the Crown feel that using profanity in official comments is in any way appropriate.

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#2605942 18-Nov-2020 12:34

Current advertising blitz for 'Instachill' evaporation cooler. Claimed to be an amazing device that rewrites the laws of physics by sucking up excess heat and depositing it into a magical heat sink (your room!). Actually, it makes things hotter by adding energy to the equation while transferring what is already there back and forth. Blow cool air one way, blow hot air the other. In other words, an overpriced fan. Which works just as well or better, especially if you drape a damp cloth over it, which is basically what the Instachill does. Will no doubt be popular with those who believe that Covid 19 is a hoax and 5G a conspiracy. Check out these rave user reviews. How do the authorities allow this kind of deceptive BS? Surely there are some standards.

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#2605945 18-Nov-2020 12:39

But it probably costs ten times as much as a fan, so surely it must be better?

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#2605952 18-Nov-2020 12:52

Rikkitic:

... How do the authorities allow this kind of deceptive BS? Surely there are some standards...

There are, in NZ at least:

https://www.asa.co.nz/

I'm not familiar with the ad, nor intimate with the standards, but it would seem Principle 2 of the code could be applicable here going by your description.

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

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#2605955 18-Nov-2020 13:02

If you look at the Australian review site I linked, this seems to be one of those (unfortunately many) cases where the advertiser is careful to stay just within the letter of the law, while hoping to take advantage of the ignorance of most people about how things work. That is what I find to be shameful. They do say it is an 'evaporation cooler', so you can't get them for falsely claiming it is an air conditioner. As the complaints make clear, all it does is heat the room. It may or may not briefly blow coolish air in one direction, depending on how well the evaporation works (not at all if it is humid, which is when you most need a cooler) but there is no outside vent so the room can only get hotter with the added energy of the unit (as the reviews make clear). This is nothing more than an expensive rip-off designed to take advantage of people who don't know better.

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#2605985 18-Nov-2020 13:51

Rikkitic:
Current advertising blitz for 'Instachill' evaporation cooler. [...] Check out these rave user reviews. How do the authorities allow this kind of deceptive BS? Surely there are some standards.

That's currently got 1.9 stars, which makes it "avoid like the plague". The main (listed first) set of reviews are all one star, so I think it's a pretty good warning about how bad it is.

The other thing is that it's sold by some as-seen-on-TV shop, which means you know it's junk.

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#2605988 18-Nov-2020 13:58

You know it's junk. I know it's junk. Everyone here knows it's junk. My concern is for the elderly and non-technical types who might swallow the advertising hype (like some of those Australian reviewers did). I think far too much latitude is allowed for this kind of thing.

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#2606041 18-Nov-2020 14:19

Rikkitic:

You know it's junk. I know it's junk. Everyone here knows it's junk. My concern is for the elderly and non-technical types who might swallow the advertising hype (like some of those Australian reviewers did). I think far too much latitude is allowed for this kind of thing.

Well the folks who spent their pocket money on X-ray glasses, Sea Monkeys and ‘Real’ Submarines advertised on the back of comics 50 years ago have to spend it on something these days!

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#2606058 18-Nov-2020 14:22

Maybe the same folks but $400+ for a glorified fan is in a different league from a Sea Monkey.

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#2606245 18-Nov-2020 15:41

Dingbatt:

Well the folks who spent their pocket money on X-ray glasses, Sea Monkeys and ‘Real’ Submarines advertised on the back of comics 50 years ago have to spend it on something these days!

Sea Monkeys now there is a long gone memory. Oh those wondrous adverts on the back of comics, 50,000 piece soldier sets were eye candy to a young lad but could never have. Thats for the memory recall @Dingbatt

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#2606251 18-Nov-2020 15:44

Dingbatt:

Well the folks who spent their pocket money on X-ray glasses, Sea Monkeys and ‘Real’ Submarines advertised on the back of comics 50 years ago have to spend it on something these days!

Ah I remember those ads so well...

Apparently what you ended up with was made of cardboard and looked like this:

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#2606370 18-Nov-2020 16:19

MikeB4:

Dingbatt:

Well the folks who spent their pocket money on X-ray glasses, Sea Monkeys and ‘Real’ Submarines advertised on the back of comics 50 years ago have to spend it on something these days!

Sea Monkeys now there is a long gone memory. Oh those wondrous adverts on the back of comics, 50,000 piece soldier sets were eye candy to a young lad but could never have. Thats for the memory recall @Dingbatt

My son got some Seamonkeys for his 6th birthday (nearly 10 years ago) and they wee effectively freeze-dried larva.

He was fascinated with them, but not half as fascinated as I was, because I grew up with the aforementioned ads on the back of comics!

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#2606720 19-Nov-2020 10:09

This is not small but I didn't know where else to put it. This sort of ignorance and stupidity really pisses me off. Disabled folk have enough barriers and issues to deal with without ignorant dickheads doing stuff like this. The driver, his/her trainer supervisor should be fired for this. This type of crap happens a lot on wellington buses and it has to stop. I have experienced there disregard for disabled myself and it is very distressing.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/123434620/blind-passenger-told-he-cant-bring-seeingeye-poodle-on-bus

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