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

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#2766241 24-Aug-2021 22:02

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Stu: Heck no! My hair dryer is a heat gun.

Let me guess, you shave with a blowtorch and a triangle paint scraper?

A blow torch? And risk losing an eyebrow? Not in the last 20 years. Getting too old for that.

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

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#2766244 24-Aug-2021 22:06

SepticSceptic: Angle grinder for the toenails?

For when they get trimmed each decade?

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#2766257 24-Aug-2021 23:12

Windows, why are you such a trash OS?

Random licensing problems that powershell only fixes for one restart are so frustrating when you are in the middle of a game campaign.

TBF it might be the game but that's a Microsoft product as well.

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#2766262 24-Aug-2021 23:46

Stu:
SepticSceptic: Angle grinder for the toenails?

For when they get trimmed each decade?

Nope. Safely square-cut the ends with a multitool, use a fine grit flappy wheel in the grinder to shape them, wrap skin covered parts of feet with masking tape, spray two coats of ferrari/midlife crisis red touch-up paint from Repco, dry using the hair dryer. When lockdown's over, put on your very best shirt and jandals and hit the town.

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#2766298 25-Aug-2021 08:18

Handle9:

Windows, why are you such a trash OS?

Just now it told me that my password expires in three days and that I can press Ctrl-Alt-End if I want to change it now. Ctrl-Alt-End does nothing.

Edit: And then half an hour after changing my password, it popped up with an untitled window (the title bar was present, but blank) asking for my new password. I closed it without entering anything and so far nothing's broken...

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#2766323 25-Aug-2021 09:06

Fancy making a few nice healthy fried eggs with a nice runny middle for you and the gang ? There's always one that breaks that you always have to give too yourself. Fancy some scrambled eggs, all of course go in the pan completely intact.

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#2766328 25-Aug-2021 09:12

rb99:

Fancy making a few nice healthy fried eggs with a nice runny middle for you and the gang ? There's always one that breaks that you always have to give too yourself. Fancy some scrambled eggs, all of course go in the pan completely intact.

For me its about chasing the wee bit of shell, as it disappears out of view into the whitening egg white.

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#2766334 25-Aug-2021 09:18

tdgeek:

rb99:

Fancy making a few nice healthy fried eggs with a nice runny middle for you and the gang ? There's always one that breaks that you always have to give too yourself. Fancy some scrambled eggs, all of course go in the pan completely intact.

For me its about chasing the wee bit of shell, as it disappears out of view into the whitening egg white.

True, though I try to pounce quickly and use a, of course, spotlessly clean finger and try to squish it to the bottom of the pan (before it gets too hot obviously, theoretically) and then drag it to the edge and out up the side of the pan.

I expect to be thanked for my kids fabulous immune systems one day...

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#2766891 26-Aug-2021 10:37

The drains have blocked and Mr E loaned our wire twirly unblocker thingie to a mate that lives miles away.

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#2766895 26-Aug-2021 10:48

I decided to install a monitor holder for the three screens I have on my desk at home. The screens are all closer than they were before, making it feel more crowded, even though there is now space below and behind the screens and it looks less cluttered.

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#2766904 26-Aug-2021 11:07

Eva888: The drains have blocked and Mr E loaned our wire twirly unblocker thingie to a mate that lives miles away.

Coat hanger, perhaps?

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#2767019 26-Aug-2021 14:21

Supermarket had a drain block powder, didn’t work. Put a long wire down, didn’t work. Tried boiling water didn’t work. Need the long twirly thingie as it’s not at the sink it’s at the drain outside. Murphy’s Law requires it happens during lockdown.

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#2767024 26-Aug-2021 14:24

Last time that happened to me I put an upside-down pot over the plug hole (to present splashes), then went outside and put the hose up the outlet. Flushed it backwards. It did the trick.

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#2767244 27-Aug-2021 03:38

The lazy guy who turns his waste collecting truck backwards into the one-way street at our corner beeping every 2nd day at 5:00 a.m. in the morning instead of proceeding along the street. One day I‘ll shoot his tires ;-)

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#2767311 27-Aug-2021 08:07

People claiming "I've done my research" when challenged on their anti-vax etc stand.
Sorry sunshine, searching out confirmation bias based websites and FB posts makes *you* the sheep, not me. And it is most definitely not "research".

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