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

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#2712153 24-May-2021 12:03

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networkn:

Oh awesome, back to grammar and spelling! How annoying.

If one is lazy about grammar and spelling, one is likely to be lazy in general.

I think it's more nuanced than that. It's situational. Like most of us, I'll speak differently depending on who I'm talking to, and writing is the same.

It depends how you want to come across. When someone is offering intelligent advice on something, if their grammar is dodgy, I have a hard time fully trusting that advice — I know this is a failing of mine, one that I am trying to get past. I know there are plenty of very smart people who just happened to be not that great at English at school.

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#2712162 24-May-2021 12:16

Gurezaemon:

I know there are plenty of very smart people who just happened to be not that great at English at school.

One of my mates is so dyslexic he's close to being functionally illiterate. He managed ok by employing people to do stuff he couldn't, by being doubly careful with recording detail, floated his company on the NZSE, sold most of his shares and is very comfortably retired in his 40s.

What really p*ssed me off about the comment about "laziness" is that our prisons are full of technically illiterate people, many of whom probably wouldn't be there if they'd received appropriate help - rather than probably being told that they were dumb and destined to fail in whatever they wanted to do from an early age - unless it was something meaningless and menial. Or sport.

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#2712194 24-May-2021 13:16

Okay no more discussion here on Granma and speeling, please folks. Please take it to the appropriate thread: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=285903

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

Keep calm, and carry on posting.

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#2712198 24-May-2021 13:22

Stu: Okay no more discussion here on Granma and speeling, please folks. Please take it to the appropriate thread: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=285903

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#2712203 24-May-2021 13:26

Not being able to discuss something small that annoys me, on the "something small that annoys me" thread.

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#2712259 24-May-2021 13:46

Stu: Okay no more discussion here on Granma and speeling, please folks. Please take it to the appropriate thread: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=285903

Indeed. I would have thought that discussing something as fundamental as being able to communicate clearly would be less subject to being shunted off somewhere else. Given that this is a forum where the whole point is to, well, communicate.

So I take it to understand that we can now ask that subjects that don't interest us personally be split off to separate threads?

Personally, I'd like anything to do with sport, motorway driving issues, and ticket pricing branched off. Please feel free to suggest other topics to ban as necessary. 😛

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#2712260 24-May-2021 13:50

The fact that the behaviour of adding a key card to my existing Microsoft365 Family subscription seems to have altered.

Previously you could "stack these", so that they just added another 12 months subscription to the end of your current period. Having taken advantage of PB Tech's discounted offering at the weekend, I went to add it to my existing subscription (which has another five months to run), only to discover that it was going to give me a new expiry 12 months out from today, rather than adding to the end of the current period. I hit cancel and backed out.

Not sure than I can stand the thought of an online chat with an agent, who almost certainly won't know the answer for the changed behaviour anyway. I think I'll just diary adding it for five months out.

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#2712264 24-May-2021 14:01

allan:

Not sure than I can stand the thought of an online chat with an agent, who almost certainly won't know the answer for the changed behaviour anyway. I think I'll just diary adding it for five months out.

If you and everyone else don't raise it, they won't get enough complaints to change the behaviour. I don't think it's by design. Somewhere someone has tweaked something and this is the unintended consequence.

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#2712267 24-May-2021 14:07

Yeah lodging tickets with Microsoft over tickets not being done correctly is always a bit of a laugh.

At least it works.

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#2712272 24-May-2021 14:13

The sheer complexity of my new convoluted Vodafone bill. Printed it out and got angry all over again each time I looked at it. I'd like to send it to Gitmo to replace waterboarding. Who is the highly paid genius who so painstakingly designed it.

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#2712404 24-May-2021 16:00

networkn:

allan:

Not sure than I can stand the thought of an online chat with an agent, who almost certainly won't know the answer for the changed behaviour anyway. I think I'll just diary adding it for five months out.

If you and everyone else don't raise it, they won't get enough complaints to change the behaviour. I don't think it's by design. Somewhere someone has tweaked something and this is the unintended consequence.

Decided you were right - but that's an hour and a quarter of my life I will never get back.

Confirmed again today that despite spelling out in my initial chat all of the info - they just don't read it and ask stuff again and again that you've already stated. Initially got told that there was a difference between the behaviour of the physical key card and the electronically delivered ones and that I should just wait for the expiry of my existing subscription. Was then referred to a completely erroneous Microsoft article advising that Third Party subscription purchases could only be dealt with by the Third Party. When I pushed back on this they then disappeared to "research" and eventually came back to ask if I could just hit confirm with my new key and see what happened, because my new subscription should be added to the existing one.

Yep turns out that initial screen was wrong and behind the scenes all actually worked as it used to - sigh...

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#2712629 24-May-2021 20:55

Eva888: The sheer complexity of my new convoluted Vodafone bill. Printed it out and got angry all over again each time I looked at it. I'd like to send it to Gitmo to replace waterboarding. Who is the highly paid genius who so painstakingly designed it.

Can you post a photo so we can see what you're getting annoyed out and help with throwing pies? Blank out all the calls to the 900 numbers if you like.

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#2712745 25-May-2021 09:01

Having a Compulsory STOP at the end of our Street that the only vehicles that stop are the ones that had to due to traffic!

Police have "deemed" it too hard to enforce as there is now (Since putting in the new Hansons Lane Cycleway) nowhere to pull offenders over, and pursuing offenders is not worth it!

And we have No Stopping restrictions (0800-0900, 1430-1530 M-F) that are totally ignored and hardly ever enforced!

Now with all the Hansons Lane parking removed it is diabolical around here now!

A lot of the Hansons Lane ones park (Sometimes for days) here now, and the Chinese Consulate visitor have no Hansons Lane parking either!

Put in a Cycleway, and to hell with the flow on effects!

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#2712765 25-May-2021 09:53

When you have a perfectly configured SPF/DKIM/DMARC set that works everywhere - except at the Commerce Commission which uses a third party spam filter that then forwards the email to their final recipients, at which point SPF fails and the message bounces because the sender IP is no longer one of the IPs I have in the SPF record but the IP for their (badly configured) anti-spam service.

And you can't even email them to let them know.

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#2712772 25-May-2021 10:08

Create a thread headed "Commerce Commission (insert insult here)" outlining the problem and see if they read it :-)

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