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

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#2737555 1-Jul-2021 19:39

Shadowfoot:
When I had a broken arm in the US I signed a document to not have a childproof top on the prescribed drugs. This was because I couldn’t open it. I know I painfully signed it with my broken arm but in hindsight I could have just scribbled with my other hand.
By signing the document it meant the drug company absolved responsibility for any kids opening the bottle.

Personally, I'd be more worried about the kid than the pharma company.

On a more practical note, a friend of mine with serious health issues has a medicine container, which he fills once a week. His wife helps him put the right pills in the right numbers for the right days in it on a Sunday night, and the container has a key lock he can open, but no chance a kid can open it.

Perhaps if you felt that might help, you could have a look into that @mikeb4

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#2737598 1-Jul-2021 21:38

networkn:

Shadowfoot:
When I had a broken arm in the US I signed a document to not have a childproof top on the prescribed drugs. This was because I couldn’t open it. I know I painfully signed it with my broken arm but in hindsight I could have just scribbled with my other hand.
By signing the document it meant the drug company absolved responsibility for any kids opening the bottle.

Personally, I'd be more worried about the kid than the pharma company.

There were no kids where I was staying, so there was no risk of kids innocently opening the bottle.

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#2737718 2-Jul-2021 08:57

You know what annoys me today?

Just about everything. I reckon I got out of the wrong side of bed today.

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#2737723 2-Jul-2021 09:02

Getting up early to head to Gilmours to grab some meat (dripping with blood!) for a BBQ this weekend, to find today it's not open for another 30 minutes!

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#2737726 2-Jul-2021 09:05

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Getting up early to head to Gilmours to grab some meat (dripping with blood!) for a BBQ this weekend, to find today it's not open for another 30 minutes!

More time for the blood to drip all over the vege sausage rolls. (sorry @Rikkitic I couldn't help it)

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#2737727 2-Jul-2021 09:05

Handsomedan: You know what annoys me today? Just about everything. I reckon I got out of the wrong side of bed today.

I've had days like that! Sympathies.

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#2737730 2-Jul-2021 09:07

Handsomedan:

networkn:

Getting up early to head to Gilmours to grab some meat (dripping with blood!) for a BBQ this weekend, to find today it's not open for another 30 minutes!

More time for the blood to drip all over the vege sausage rolls. (sorry @Rikkitic I couldn't help it)

Actually, I checked, and the sausage rolls weren't anywhere near the vege ones :)

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#2737745 2-Jul-2021 09:34

'Loyalty' cards that are more like disloyalty cards. A local shop gives you a stamp for each $10 you spend. If you buy a $13 item today and a $17 item tomorrow, that's two stamps. But if you'd bought both at once, that'd be three stamps.

So, visiting the shop once gives you 50% more stamps than visiting it twice. Where's the loyalty there?

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#2737758 2-Jul-2021 09:59

Handsomedan:
You know what annoys me today?

Just about everything. I reckon I got out of the wrong side of bed today.

I know exactly how you feel

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2737819 2-Jul-2021 10:14

networkn:

Shadowfoot:
When I had a broken arm in the US I signed a document to not have a childproof top on the prescribed drugs. This was because I couldn’t open it. I know I painfully signed it with my broken arm but in hindsight I could have just scribbled with my other hand.
By signing the document it meant the drug company absolved responsibility for any kids opening the bottle.

Personally, I'd be more worried about the kid than the pharma company.

On a more practical note, a friend of mine with serious health issues has a medicine container, which he fills once a week. His wife helps him put the right pills in the right numbers for the right days in it on a Sunday night, and the container has a key lock he can open, but no chance a kid can open it.

Perhaps if you felt that might help, you could have a look into that @mikeb4

I used to do that. I now have my medicines pre-packed in sealed daily doses by the pharmacy - saves hours of time packing your own!

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#2737821 2-Jul-2021 10:16

Behodar:

'Loyalty' cards that are more like disloyalty cards. A local shop gives you a stamp for each $10 you spend. If you buy a $13 item today and a $17 item tomorrow, that's two stamps. But if you'd bought both at once, that'd be three stamps.

So, visiting the shop once gives you 50% more stamps than visiting it twice. Where's the loyalty there?

And you just know that they would look at you with a blank stare and say "yeah, nah, sorry about that" if you pointed it out...!

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#2737823 2-Jul-2021 10:18

MikeB4:

@networkn Yep you are right and there is no way I want any young ones hurt. I wish the drug companies changed the design of the lids so a disabled person could open them easier, maybe some sort of unlock key system.

Can you ask for this from your pharmacy Mike? It's what I get mine in every month. Really handy if you are talking about meds you take daily.

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#2737858 2-Jul-2021 11:55

Taxis continuing to park and wait in the Hansons Lane Cycleway (At the Arthur Street intersection)! Especially when Arthur Street is EMPTY!

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#2737861 2-Jul-2021 12:01

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Rabbits get dumped a lot, it's even worse here. They just dump them in parks so they can be "free." It sucks.

I'm starting to think that's what happened with this one, plenty of kids walk past the signs I put up, and I haven't had a response.

So nobody claimed the bunny, it does appear that it was dumped. I took it to a local animal rescue clinic, scanned for microchip - none. Looking at TM etc, this was a white blue-eyed mini-lop rabbit, very cute, and being sold on TM in the $100-$300 range. I've taken it to the SPCA, they seemed confident that they'd be able to re-home it.

Now for a little rant about some annoyances:

Bunnies aren't great pets for small children, they're fragile, they generally don't like being handled (though this one must have been reasonably used to it - after it recovered from almost freezing to death and being killed by cats, it was pretty happy - if not to be picked up - but to snuggle and be petted). They're not particularly "responsive" and even if small kids can be trained to not inadvertently torture the poor things, they'll almost inevitably get bored with them once the novelty wears off - which can probably be measured in hours or days - well short of the 8 years or so that bunnies often live.

This bunny was completely deaf. Humans selectively bred them to have lop ears, they apparently suffer from many health complaints from in-breeding, the lop-ears block air flow around the ear canal, they get fungal and bacterial infections, ear wax buildup. So another reason why they're probably not suitable for small kids or anybody thinking they're "low maintenance" pets - they probably won't be - and to neglect the health issues that they'll probably have would be inhumane and cruel. I'm not a vet, I did check the rabbits ears for external signs of infection or blockage, it all looked fine to my inexpert eye, so presumably the total deafness was either genetic, or it had infections in the past which caused the deafness but had been treated. It's teeth also looked okay, so presumably the owners also looked after its diet okay.

As cute as the rabbit was, the selective breeding for "cuteness" really is a horrible concept, whether that's dogs, cats, or rabbits. This thing was totally dependant on constant human care, feeding, cleaning. The other side of "cute" is that it's an abomination of nature in my opinion, bloody cruel to create animals that inevitably suffer - because of the very traits some humans think are "cute" or whatever.

If I sound like some animal welfare zealot, I'm not. I've hunted, shot, skinned, gutted, cooked and eaten wild rabbit and other wild animals, not a vegan (but not ideologically opposed to veganism either). But I despair about humanity sometimes - we do a lot of things that are IMO thoughtless, cruel and inhumane, if not deliberate then for the wrong and very selfish reasons - even if we don't realise it.

Never give any kid any pet as a gift unless you as an adult are prepared to take over full responsibility for the care of the creature for its entire life.

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#2737862 2-Jul-2021 12:04

Geektastic:
I used to do that. I now have my medicines pre-packed in sealed daily doses by the pharmacy - saves hours of time packing your own!

For anyone who isn't aware of this and has to take more than one or two pills at a time, sign up for this now, they pre sort the meds and put them in blister packs arranged by time to take. My neighbour has this and its the only way to keep them sorted. Then you put them in a cheap electronic safe and they're childproof.

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