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

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#2704267 10-May-2021 09:30

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Rikkitic:

People who think the 70's were a great decade. The 60's were a great decade. The 70's were the crashing hangover you have when you wake up wishing you were dead, and wonder who the hell that person next to you in the bed is.

Every decade is a great decade if you want it to be. They are just different.

When you find yourself in a crimplene suit, sitting on a kelly green sofa with orange floral cushions, drinking Cold Duck, listening to Neil Diamond on your Murphy Series 8, yet enjoying the whole experience.

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#2704273 10-May-2021 09:34

Rikkitic:

People who think the 70's were a great decade. The 60's were a great decade. The 70's were the crashing hangover you have when you wake up wishing you were dead, and wonder who the hell that person next to you in the bed is.

I think it largely depends on your perspective, which also has a sharp correlation to your age.

I was a child in the 70's. I lived in a small town, surrounded by bush-covered hills. I was able to listen to awesome music on the radio, while enjoying the most outrageously carefree life. I wandered aimlessly in the bush with my mates, rode bikes and home-made trolleys (carts) down fire-breaks and crashed through gorse bushes without thinking about it (or wearing helmets, pads or other protection).

We made money collecting glass bottles for recycling, we listened to Kiss, Bee Gees, Abba, Queen and Helen Reddy. We wore brown clothes...on purpose!

And don't even get me started on TV! Six Million Dollar Man, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Charlies Angels, Kenny Everett, Two Ronnies, etc etc.

The 70's rocked.

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#2705267 10-May-2021 10:36

Anyone who thinks the 70's were good did not experience the 60's.

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#2705276 10-May-2021 10:42

Rikkitic:

Anyone who thinks the 70's were good did not experience the 60's.

Enjoyment of any period of time would be entirely individual.

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#2705281 10-May-2021 10:50

networkn:

Rikkitic:

Anyone who thinks the 70's were good did not experience the 60's.

Enjoyment of any period of time would be entirely individual.

Yes. I was at primary school in the 1950s. My brother and I had the most marvellous happy childhood growing up in Plimmerton, a beachside town north of Wellington. Very simple, safe times and although I see it through rose-tinted lenses, looking back it was an odd time but no-one was aware of that then - we just enjoyed it.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2705288 10-May-2021 10:53

networkn:

Enjoyment of any period of time would be entirely individual.

Yeah - that annoys me too.

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#2705292 10-May-2021 11:02

Handsomedan:

And don't even get me started on TV! Six Million Dollar Man, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Charlies Angels, Kenny Everett, Two Ronnies, etc etc.

When the show was number three, I figured it was our acting. When it got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra - Farrah Fawcett

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#2705428 10-May-2021 12:12

Thinking about the post-war decades, how would you characterise each of them in one idea?

1950s Baby boom

1960s re-Renaissance

1970s Muddle

1980s PCs

1990s Internet

2000s Terrorism

2010s Social Media

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#2705486 10-May-2021 13:23

Uber Eats effectively raising prices by adding a service charge.

Uber Eats showing that delivery is free, and it's only apparent at the final checkout that there is a minimum order.

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#2705507 10-May-2021 13:56

Uber Eats (like some other third party delivery services) is in my opinions predatorial in its practices.

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#2705736 10-May-2021 19:09

The infantilisation of things like newspaper articles and television documentaries.

30 years ago, adults were assumed to have a reasonable grasp of the world around them. Now, despite ever more easy access to information and presumably better schooling, we are addressed as if we were simpletons.

Take this for example:

“Those white, fluffy breads that melt in your mouth … break down into glucose before they even get to your tummy,” he explains.

“Tummy?” Really? We are adults not 5 year old children.

That’s just one example.

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#2705737 10-May-2021 19:14

networkn:

Uber Eats effectively raising prices by adding a service charge.

Uber Eats showing that delivery is free, and it's only apparent at the final checkout that there is a minimum order.

Yeah, like interest free hire purchase with the booking/admin fee. Faux interest.

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#2705814 11-May-2021 07:45

We bought a brand-new house six years ago. It has a Grohe mixer tap in the kitchen with a pull-down spray nozzle on a flexible metal hose.

The nozzle is chromed plastic and has broken. I have asked Grohe online about this and a spare part can be purchased through the NZ agent. They also confirmed that the tap has a 15-year warrantee and we would be covered - but they require to see the invoice/receipt for when it was purchased. Because of the way we purchased the house, we don't have a receipt - just as we don't have the receipts for many appliances in the house.

This seems unfair to me. This must crop up a lot for people who buy new homes - there's no box of receipts when you move in and you don't think of that at the time. Looks I am going to have to pay $100+ for piece of chromed plastic. Grrr.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.