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

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#2609075 23-Nov-2020 13:05

Geektastic:
Rikkitic:

Or maybe it is just an old boys network where they all stroke each other.

Who cares? I’m not jealous of them, unlike almost everyone else it seems.

Good luck to them. I aspire to their achievements.

Simplistic viewpoint coming up - but surely if a company employs people to make stuff, and they generate a certain income, and say 20 % of that goes to the brilliant psychopath at the top, thats just depriving the people at the bottom (and every other level) of extra income vs the equally brilliant, less egotistical one at the top who only gets a mere 5 or 10%.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#2609108 23-Nov-2020 14:05

rb99:

Simplistic viewpoint coming up - but surely if a company employs people to make stuff, and they generate a certain income, and say 20 % of that goes to the brilliant psychopath at the top, thats just depriving the people at the bottom (and every other level) of extra income vs the equally brilliant, less egotistical one at the top who only gets a mere 5 or 10%.

Well, no.

In the capitalist, free-market system, if a company can employ an equally-capable CEO for 25% of a psychopath, the savings go to the shareholders, not to the workers. It is [gasp! shock! horror!] socialism to suggest that the workers shouldn't be screwed over as far as possible.

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#2609109 23-Nov-2020 14:10

Online retailers who flash a pop-up with a discount offer when you try to navigate away from their website. As soon as you reach from the back button, close button or address bar you get hit with “before you go......”.

Firstly you’ve just interrupted my workflow and I now need to close your annoying pop up. Secondly if I had found something on your website and proceeded to the checkout I would have paid full price, but because I had the audacity to try to leave you reward me with a discount?

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#2609111 23-Nov-2020 14:19

Senecio: Online retailers who flash a pop-up with a discount offer when you try to navigate away from their website. As soon as you reach from the back button, close button or address bar you get hit with “before you go......”.

Firstly you’ve just interrupted my workflow and I now need to close your annoying pop up. Secondly if I had found something on your website and proceeded to the checkout I would have paid full price, but because I had the audacity to try to leave you reward me with a discount?

Toats. And also the nagging that sites do attempting to enlist you for notifications. No way pal.

Only bettered (worsered?) by hideous sites/apps like dominos pizza who are endlessly blocking your attempt to purchase a pizza by throwing pop ups for offers you don't want.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2609123 23-Nov-2020 14:25

Press Command-W to kill tabs with extreme prejudice :)

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#2609129 23-Nov-2020 14:34

frankv:

rb99:

Simplistic viewpoint coming up - but surely if a company employs people to make stuff, and they generate a certain income, and say 20 % of that goes to the brilliant psychopath at the top, thats just depriving the people at the bottom (and every other level) of extra income vs the equally brilliant, less egotistical one at the top who only gets a mere 5 or 10%.

Well, no.

In the capitalist, free-market system, if a company can employ an equally-capable CEO for 25% of a psychopath, the savings go to the shareholders, not to the workers. It is [gasp! shock! horror!] socialism to suggest that the workers shouldn't be screwed over as far as possible.

So those that can afford to have shares benefit more than the people who actually provide a fair bit of that money. What a weird system. Yep, I can see why socialism is such a dirty word 😀

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#2609130 23-Nov-2020 14:35

The sites like Dominos Pizza that go out of their way to show you the actual price of what they want you to buy.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#2609136 23-Nov-2020 14:47

An annoyance: small pointless thefts

I live in a provincial NZ town, and work in the central area.

There's a small public bulletin board in a mall I keep tidy, like removing past flyers.

I bought a bunch of thumbtacks, and pinned left a bunch of spare ones on the bulletin board.

Somebody not only stole the thumbtacks, but took the opportunity to unpin some flyers, leaving them scattered on the ground.

It's a theft worth less than $1, so I can't see the great benefit.

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#2609170 23-Nov-2020 15:37

Fred99:

Spigot bearing seized on the input shaft of a car I'm changing the clutch on, and so far it's defied all efforts to split the gearbox from the engine. I'll give it one more go, but I'll be in really deep trouble if that fails.

Well that was fun (not). Used a similar method to one suggested by @Bung - thanks.

Here's photos of the small thing that really annoyed me:

Left is the core of the clutch pilot/spigot bearing still on the gearbox input shaft. On the right is the remains of the rest of the bearing. Was also a mission to get the core of the bearing off the shaft. It should have slid off with gentle force, but was seized. Had to use blowtorch and bearing puller and some foul language to encourage it to move.

Now to get parts and put the thing back together...

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#2609196 23-Nov-2020 15:50

kingdragonfly: An annoyance: small pointless thefts

Yeah, had my car stolen, several years ago now, to get from my side of our small town to the other, admittedly on a foul rainy night. But huge amounts of inconvenience for me to get the window & ignition replaced. Who'd have thought that a rear quarter light would cost as much as a windscreen?

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#2609225 23-Nov-2020 16:22

kingdragonfly: If you considered being a psychopathy are rare skill or ability, I'd agree that many CEO's have these skills.

Washington Post: Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

Social predators are very good at convincing you that they have these skills. They often don't have them at all.

For an example of this, read Jon Ronson's "The Psychopath Test". He went into a prison to interview a convicted psychopath and came out convinced he was innocent. Robert Hare, the creator of the principal psychopathy diagnostic tool, has reported sending psychology students in to prisons to talk to known psychpaths and they come back convinced the person is innocent.

In short, a small scattering of mild psychopathic traits can in some cases help make someone an effective CEO, lawyer, whatever. Anything above this level makes them incredibly toxic, to the extent that there are people who are used by corporations to weed out psychopaths before they're hired. Some of the tricks they use to detect them are pretty interesting...

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#2609304 23-Nov-2020 18:15

Senecio: Online retailers who flash a pop-up with a discount offer when you try to navigate away from their website. As soon as you reach from the back button, close button or address bar you get hit with “before you go......”.

Firstly you’ve just interrupted my workflow and I now need to close your annoying pop up. Secondly if I had found something on your website and proceeded to the checkout I would have paid full price, but because I had the audacity to try to leave you reward me with a discount?

You dont need to close the popup to close the tab, its within the page so closes along with it.

If something was an acceptable deal at full price, it doesnt make sense to advertise it again with a discount since its already established that you think full price is ok, but it seems no carts really take that into account.

Hell, I keep getting offered deals only for new customers everytime I go to aliexpress because I am not signed in, since they kick you out stupidly quickly.

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#2610162 25-Nov-2020 08:21

International / shipping from the US is slow!

I had two orders from the USA. From the dispatch date, one took 58 days

The other order took 81 days, almost 3 months. I had literally forgotten about it.

So unless it's a huge company like Amazon, don't trust deliver estimations.

Darn COVID.

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#2610595 25-Nov-2020 15:25

Design flaws.

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#2610598 25-Nov-2020 15:31

K8Toledo:
Design flaws.

Reminds me of the micro SD/SIM tray on some of the newer Lenovo X1's, it's behind the lid so if you open the laptop with the tray protruding by any amount it snaps it off.

Thanks, Lenovo.

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