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

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#2739284 5-Jul-2021 18:41

MikeB4:

Apples beeping bouncing beach ball and my iMac taking 2.5 minutes to open Excel

Oof. I have a love/hate relationship with Excel. It's amazeballs when you rapidly create an ungodly spreadsheet with lots of lookups and fancy comparisons for a report that helps out someone else but when it sits there chugging through someone else's crappy document that I don't have time to debug or behaves like scroll lock is on? Oof.

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#2739327 5-Jul-2021 21:06

Rikkitic:
Listening (with one ear) to a tv1 news 'live cross' from a reporter in New York telling us all about the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. Considering that the reporter in New York is not all that much closer to the Pacific Northwest than we here in New Zealand are.

Isn't that standard for news reporting though? "Thing happens in Madrid, here's a live cross to someone who once went to school with someone whose brother was married to the friend of someone who had been to Madrid...".

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#2739401 5-Jul-2021 23:49

That I waited ages before replacing Apple's awful keyboard with GBoard!

How Apple managed to make swipe typing quite that bad, I have no idea.

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#2739426 6-Jul-2021 08:06

neb:
Rikkitic:

Listening (with one ear) to a tv1 news 'live cross' from a reporter in New York telling us all about the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. Considering that the reporter in New York is not all that much closer to the Pacific Northwest than we here in New Zealand are.

Isn't that standard for news reporting though? "Thing happens in Madrid, here's a live cross to someone who once went to school with someone whose brother was married to the friend of someone who had been to Madrid...".

Live cross in general seems a waste of time and effort. If you've got footage of the event as it's happening, then we don't need some reporters face in the shot. If you've sent them to stand outside a now closed building where a thing happened at some point in the past, well, there's literally "nothing to see here, move along please".

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#2739430 6-Jul-2021 08:16

Live cross is just a pointless gimmick our monkey media aped from America, where of course everything is cooler.

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#2739434 6-Jul-2021 08:24

Rikkitic:

Live cross is just a pointless gimmick our monkey media aped from America, where of course everything is cooler.

And bigger.

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#2739436 6-Jul-2021 08:27

And vastly more variety and choice

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

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#2739455 6-Jul-2021 09:16

The difference is that a live cross in America usually crosses to where something is actually happening. Here it is just some breathless reporter standing in front of an empty building where something may have happened a couple days ago. It looks lame, feels lame, is lame.

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#2739477 6-Jul-2021 09:57

At the moment 5.6 degrees C.

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#2739660 6-Jul-2021 12:22

No VoLTE for Vodafone One Business mobiles.

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#2739664 6-Jul-2021 12:30

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At the moment 5.6 degrees C.

Too cold to be comfortable, too warm to kill fleas, bacteria, fungal spores, etc in the garden. Total waste of a temperature.

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#2739687 6-Jul-2021 13:24

Geektastic: That I waited ages before replacing Apple's awful keyboard with GBoard!

How Apple managed to make swipe typing quite that bad, I have no idea.

It's now tracking your every move. 😇

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

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#2739732 6-Jul-2021 14:54

Vodafone creating super user access to pleb staff

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#2739810 6-Jul-2021 16:32

Rikkitic:
The difference is that a live cross in America usually crosses to where something is actually happening. Here it is just some breathless reporter standing in front of an empty building where something may have happened a couple days ago. It looks lame, feels lame, is lame.

I've paid for my OB capability and I'm going to bloody well use it.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2739863 6-Jul-2021 18:35

Fred99:

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.

Then there's this.

It does my head in how irresponsible people are with animals. We help out a rescue group by fostering rabbits and it's such a drama finding homes without these sort of people.

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