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

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#2717339 2-Jun-2021 15:36

Handle9:

Definitely no business case for booze or tobacco sponsoring sport.

I disagree - I have always played my best football after the halftime beer.

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#2717349 2-Jun-2021 15:42

The three worse sports injuries I saw were all squash players who played after a drink or two :)

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#2717356 2-Jun-2021 16:11

Companies that won't sell you a product because "unless you know what you are doing, there are a whole lot of things that could go wrong", but won't come and install one either because "you're too far away".

Grrr.

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#2717357 2-Jun-2021 16:13

Handsomedan:

Handle9:

Definitely no business case for booze or tobacco sponsoring sport.

I disagree - I have always played my best football after the halftime beer.

Yep. I've seen some sportspeople who were worse than useless sober, so I guess being half-drunk does allow a remote possibility for improvement.

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#2717420 2-Jun-2021 19:52

Handsomedan:
I disagree - I have always played my best football after the halftime beer.

Do you also sing your best, and are at your most witty and charming, after the beer?

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#2717523 3-Jun-2021 09:07

When the change log says A, B and C, so you update, and find that D now works completely differently.

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#2717527 3-Jun-2021 09:19

"Traffic Management" trucks .... gahh! Got a gang of them out my way this week, stopping all traffic at work/school run time so one guy can put out a cone by the footpath, get back in his own big flashing truck drive 10 feet then get out and put down another cone and repeat till he has no cones left.

Seems no work can be done anywhere without fleet of safety people now ... and we wonder why jobs take so long!

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#2717534 3-Jun-2021 09:27

Mark:"Traffic Management" trucks .... gahh! Got a gang of them out my way this week, stopping all traffic at work/school run time so one guy can put out a cone by the footpath, get back in his own big flashing truck drive 10 feet then get out and put down another cone and repeat till he has no cones left.

Seems no work can be done anywhere without fleet of safety people now ... and we wonder why jobs take so long!

And the Students come along and either:

Rearrange them to close the Road!

Steal them to take home or use as drinking funnels (Yes it happens around here!)

Throw them over the nearest fence!

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#2717547 3-Jun-2021 09:58

Students being dumb idiots only because "legend" = students are supposed to be idiots, apparently.

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#2717561 3-Jun-2021 10:40

neb:
Handsomedan:

I disagree - I have always played my best football after the halftime beer.

Do you also sing your best, and are at your most witty and charming, after the beer?

Ah...I see you know me.

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#2717569 3-Jun-2021 10:51

networkn:

I'd wonder, if you surveyed 100 of those kids at that event, if they could remember any words written on the jersey of the players and then asked them what any of those words meant (if any could even remember any) I'd be surprised if 1% could identify anything of significance, and to then be able to prove that it increased their chances of drinking....

A large part of the effect of advertising is subliminal. And cumulative from repetitive exposure.

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

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#2717570 3-Jun-2021 10:54

eracode:

A large part of the effect of advertising is subliminal. And cumulative from repetitive exposure.

How many times will the Highlanders be serving these kids breakfast do you think?

I understand what you are saying, I just don't think this particular instance is a problem.

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#2717583 3-Jun-2021 11:12

networkn:

eracode:

A large part of the effect of advertising is subliminal. And cumulative from repetitive exposure.

How many times will the Highlanders be serving these kids breakfast do you think?

I understand what you are saying, I just don't think this particular instance is a problem.

I understand what you're saying too - and I think the move to ban the brand on jerseys is woke rubbish. However if the kids see the brand on the jerseys during games, then when they're being served a breakfast, it's all part of a brand-building picture.

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#2717699 3-Jun-2021 14:49

Mozilla's latest attempt to drive any remaining users away from Firefox, in particular the massive amount of wasted space around things like bookmark lists so your bookmarks spread and you have to scroll up and down all over the place to get to them, and the fact that they've hardcoded it in so you can't fix it via userChrome.css.

The rest of this post is self-censored to allow it to appear, the redacted form is below. About 25% of the F's in it are "Firefox".

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#2717720 3-Jun-2021 15:28

Air New Zealand.

Twice in two weeks they have changed my flight for "operational reasons", first moving it back 4 or so hours, then forward 2 hours. Of course, each of these requires changing car parking bookings. And losing our selected seats. To rub salt into the wound, there is apparently no way to select seats (I would be grateful if someone could tell me how to do that). The "Manage Booking" site has entries for canceling, ordering special meals, hiring cars, and a bunch of other cr*p, but nothing that suggests it will lead to a seat selection dialog. There *is* a "Contact us" link under the "Anything Else" heading, which leads to...

A glimmer of hope! This page includes a link to a Search Engine, which does indeed recognise "Seat Select", and, after logging into the site again, cruelly takes me to the "Manage Booking" screen again.

I sincerely hope that they maintain their aircraft better than they maintain their website.

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