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

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#2627207 27-Dec-2020 17:23

kingdragonfly: I remember visiting my Dad for a holiday, after spending thousands on a plane ticket, and 12 hours in a plane.

He opened the door, and started to laugh mockingly.

"Wow" pointing to my stomach "look how fat he is. Hey everybody! Check how how fat he is. Ha ha ha. Come in."

Then starts with a news dump ala Fox News, and how blacks are ruining everything.

That was the last time I visited before he died. Good riddance.

I hear you.

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#2627209 27-Dec-2020 17:24

mdf:

Painting a whole shed from testpots will take a while!

No, the painter got a couple of 10l of it, and I have some left since its what the garage was going to be done in too until priorities changed on the reclad of that.

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#2627214 27-Dec-2020 17:48

afe66: That the 10 year smoke detector lasted 6 years....I dated it when installed.

So should I take it back to Mitre10... who has a receipt after 6 years.

Mine didn't even last a day. The damned thing started going off every few seconds regardless of what I did. I couldn't shut it off or remove the battery, which was sealed inside. I even tried putting it in the freezer. I finally took it outside and bashed it to death with a hammer, which was the only way I could shut it up. That makes it kind of hard to return on the warranty, receipt or not.

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#2627217 27-Dec-2020 18:04

I got 5 years out of my 10 year one, it had a plain looking 9v that I was able to pull out of it once it started to bleep at me in the middle of the night. Pretty hopeless since it was about 4 years for an older less false alarm prone ionization alarm off a standard alkaline 9v so the extra year and additional false alarms is really a step backwards.

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#2627232 27-Dec-2020 18:59

elpenguino: Eighth? Easy going on the colour there !

Possibly a too-obscure reference, Eighth is Alabaster. So if it's Alabaster it's too trendy for me, if it's Eighth it's safely non-trendy and obscure.

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#2627234 27-Dec-2020 19:02

Tinkerisk:
Geektastic: Ringing my mother to say Happy Christmas and having to endure a 45 minute rant about the neighbours she hates, the French, Brexit, lorry drivers, Price Harry and his new boss etc etc.

At least you can be certain that she is not yet demented. :-)

Yeah, she's only going on about Brexit, not Trump.

(Replies to the appropriate thread :-).

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#2627237 27-Dec-2020 19:08

richms:
I got 5 years out of my 10 year one, it had a plain looking 9v that I was able to pull out of it once it started to bleep at me in the middle of the night. Pretty hopeless since it was about 4 years for an older less false alarm prone ionization alarm off a standard alkaline 9v so the extra year and additional false alarms is really a step backwards.

My mother got one fitted by the fire service that started beeping after about three years. Can't remember the brand but I googled it and there are entire batches of them that are known to be bad. I just use LiIon 9V's in my standard removable-battery ones and recharge them once a year or so.

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#2627239 27-Dec-2020 19:14

mdf:
You can order colour swatches online.

If you need something sooner, quarter rice cake is pretty close.

The swatches are IIRC only A4, I'm painting up 60x40 card sheets. You need the biggest samples you can get, Resene have their Giant Patches or whatever they call them (A2, about the same as my card sheets) but they're twice the price of the test pots. Should probably move this to the DIY forum, but it's amazing how much darker and more vivid any colour looks when spread across a large area compared to smallish test patches, I discarded the initial selection that looked fine with a small sample because they're too intense over a large area.

Thanks for the Quarter Rice Cake hint, I can probably just go with that anyway, I'm just matching the ceiling white to the wall colours.

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#2627288 28-Dec-2020 07:18

Jeez, how many colours of white are there?

Speaking of annoyances, moving into a new place, having to do a small repair on a wall and not knowing which white colour it is.

https://www.resene.co.nz/homeown/habitat/20-the-right-white.htm

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#2627334 28-Dec-2020 11:38

Can you cut away a sample to take them? I did that for the exterior of our house where Resene were super helpful and were able to find a standard off the shelf colour that matched.

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#2627336 28-Dec-2020 11:45

kingdragonfly: Speaking of annoyances, moving into a new place, having to do a small repair on a wall and not knowing which white colour it is.

The even bigger annoyance will be when you realise that it matches none of the 7,325 shades of white because it actually started as yellow before twenty years of sun exposure.

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#2627453 28-Dec-2020 16:37

neb:
kingdragonfly: Speaking of annoyances, moving into a new place, having to do a small repair on a wall and not knowing which white colour it is.

The even bigger annoyance will be when you realise that it matches none of the 7,325 shades of white because it actually started as yellow before twenty years of sun exposure.

Or it was one of the 7,325 shades of white, but has subsequently yellowed.

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#2627526 28-Dec-2020 22:08

The fact that hi fi stores never seem to stock ALL the things I want to audition. So for example, Streaming Unit X is available in one shop but not Speaker Y. Speaker Y is available in another shop, but not Streaming Unit X.

This makes auditioning very difficult.

Also the inflated pricing in NZ is somewhat irksome too.

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#2627529 28-Dec-2020 22:14

Geektastic:
The fact that hi fi stores never seem to stock ALL the things I want to audition.

This generalises to "$any_big_chain never seem to stock ALL the things they list in their catalogue that you need to complete a job". The Albany Mitre10 has the 316 SS bolt you need, but the nuts are only in stock in the Mt.Albert Mitre10, and the matching brackets are only available in the Penrose Mitre10.

I think some of these places are actually secretly owned by BP, Shell, or Exxon.

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#2627539 28-Dec-2020 22:46

neb:
Geektastic:

The fact that hi fi stores never seem to stock ALL the things I want to audition.

This generalises to "$any_big_chain never seem to stock ALL the things they list in their catalogue that you need to complete a job". The Albany Mitre10 has the 316 SS bolt you need, but the nuts are only in stock in the Mt.Albert Mitre10, and the matching brackets are only available in the Penrose Mitre10. I think some of these places are actually secretly owned by BP, Shell, or Exxon.

Mitre 10.

Just annoying how they all trade the way they do. Things on the website that are not in stock, so ask at the customer disservice desk. "No, we cant get that in for you, its not something that we deal in".

Things in store that are not on the website because its something that only that store carries, so cant look up to see if its at another store or not.

And when you get stuck behind someone who is trying to buy something but has an account at a different branch. Ohmygod they have to call the other branch to see if they can sell it to them.

Give me bunnings and powerpass any day. But yeah, because mitre10 are "locally owned" so I am supposed to forgive them for all that because of who owns them.

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