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

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#2782952 23-Sep-2021 16:23

The spring in my toaster is too strong and about one in every three slices ends up on the kitchen floor, in the sink, or inside a shoe by the back door.

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#2782961 23-Sep-2021 16:30

Geektastic: The irritating habit that NZ journalists have if referring to people by their surname only and omitting Mr, Mrs, Ms, etc so that their work reads like a school end of term report.

This is standard journalism style, it's used in newspapers around the world, you use the full name the first time and only the surname after that. The few papers that don't do it are the exception, I think the NYT is one.

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#2782962 23-Sep-2021 16:31

cddt:
The spring in my toaster is too strong and about one in every three slices ends up on the kitchen floor, in the sink, or inside a shoe by the back door.

That'd be kinda cool actually, get the kids to make the toast and see how far they can shoot it across the room.

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#2783030 23-Sep-2021 17:23

neb:
cddt:

The spring in my toaster is too strong and about one in every three slices ends up on the kitchen floor, in the sink, or inside a shoe by the back door.

That'd be kinda cool actually, get the kids to make the toast and see how far they can shoot it across the room.

Yeah, make a sport of it. Competitive toaster long jumping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyg9U1YaVk8

EDIT; I need to learn the YT tags....

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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#2783032 23-Sep-2021 17:27

cddt:

The spring in my toaster is too strong and about one in every three slices ends up on the kitchen floor, in the sink, or inside a shoe by the back door.

Lucky it hasn’t already got butter and marmalade on it. If if had, it would always land sticky-side-down and that would be really annoying.

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

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#2783033 23-Sep-2021 17:31

eracode:
Lucky it hasn’t already got butter and marmalade on it. If if had, it would always land sticky-side-down and that would be really annoying.

That's actually a useful technique, what you do is get a cat and duct tape it to a piece of buttered toast with jam on it, then toss them up in the air. The combination will just sit there spinning in mid air, and you can rig a dynamo to it and generate a modest amount of power, enough to charge a cellphone.

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#2783061 23-Sep-2021 18:37

"Small" paint jobs, like the one I've done today, inside of what used to be a HWC cupboard that I relined. Required trip to M10 to get a roller sleeve and tube of no more gaps because the open one I had was open and couldn't be resuscitated. The one I bought and used about 1/4 of will now take its place, and won't be able to be resuscitated next time I need some. Three coats, primer and two topcoats. I deliberately didn't read the instructions because I'm sure that suggested drying time between coats would have only added to my annoyance, it was dry enough.

Job done, then more time cleaning up than painting, last job was to take paint etc to garage, door was closed, remote is in my car, grab it quickly, open door and dump painting gear in place where junk is stored. Walk back to greet my SO who's just arrived home from her day's work having important conversations. I notice a streak of paint on my car door, then look at my hand, praise the lord that I'd not thrown my arms around my SO to greet her homecoming, as was customary many decades ago - or in particular the expensive clothes mandatory to those involved in important conversations. Skin can be cleaned. I run to my beloved chariot to survey the damage. Sure enough, there was paint on the console, the seat, the lid of the box thing on the console where I hide important stuff, and the car interior being one of the many shades of black it was warm from being parked outside, and it was starting to dry. I sprinted for the bottle of alcohol I know is quite effective for cleaning half-dry acrylic paint, and it wasn't where I left it, despite me having important conversations about putting things back where they were with the culprit who used it last and by a stroke of luck for him is out of town. But aha - there was a bottle of hand sanitiser in the car - that did the trick.

My SO then surveys my project, comments about how fabulous it looks, opens some of the other cupboards and asks why I didn't paint the inside of those at the same time. And I know she's right.

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#2783071 23-Sep-2021 19:15

Thanks for the yarn @Fred99 - I can both feel your pain and get a small chuckle at the same time.

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#2783078 23-Sep-2021 19:22

Ge0rge: Thanks for the yarn @Fred99 - I can both feel your pain and get a small chuckle at the same time.

I just got lost in fantasising at the point where he said "trip to M10".

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#2783150 23-Sep-2021 20:12

They obviously never read the AP style guide.

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#2783290 23-Sep-2021 22:44

elpenguino:

EDIT; I need to learn the YT tags....

This?

Of course code could be written to strip the stuff that you - the user - need to strip manually to get it to work, but if it was made too easy then the entire forum could be filled with videos of cats doing dumb things...

Or even worse - users might post the code dQw4w9WgXcQ

(edited embedded link removed for reasons...)