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

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#2794946 14-Oct-2021 09:46

Handsomedan:

alasta:

I thought Google's ad targeting algorithm was supposed to be really smart, but Youtube seems to keep thrusting Sanitarium ads at me despite the fact that I would never, ever buy one of their products. They are crooks as far as I'm concerned.

Is that because of their tax status, as a religious organisation?

Partly because of that, and partly because of their practice of imitating British brands such as Marmite and Weet-a-Bix and then taking legal action against anyone who tries to sell the genuine product in NZ.

Oh, and also because their product is crap.

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#2794956 14-Oct-2021 10:29

floydbloke:
Call-centre audio volume discrepancies between hold-music and actual dialogue.

And the assumption that their callers are all under 25 and think that rubbish they're annoying us with is actually music at all.

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#2794957 14-Oct-2021 10:33

eracode:

Rikkitic:

I long ago promised myself that if I ever see any product with old! unimproved! on the label, I will buy it regardless of what it is.

Maybe ‘old! unimproved!’ is the same as ‘original’? For example:

Also "classic"

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#2794960 14-Oct-2021 10:35

Geektastic:

Crisps used to come with the salt in a separate twist of paper. The customer added the salt. Ready salted was the evolution of that in which the separate salt was removed.

Surely you mean the separate salt was unseparated? Or included?

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#2795069 14-Oct-2021 11:44

Instead of giving you salt, the crisps came (Al)ready salted.

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#2795081 14-Oct-2021 12:00

Rikkitic:
Behodar:

Interesting! I don't believe I've ever seen that.

God you're young!

You tell 'im, gramps!

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#2795126 14-Oct-2021 12:43

Spark, Enable Networks, people at call centres who either can't or don't want to understand when their system had goofed, and possibly the most annoying thing of all, when the customer is an elderly woman - I suspect that sexist/ageist attitudes by call centre staff means they don't listen.

Situation is that I got a call from an old friend last night, Spark were supposed to have arranged a fibre install at her house. Her copper phone line and DSL had been disconnected - so no internet or phone. She'd called Spark to tell them that she had no phone/internet, they tell her they'd installed fibre which was working - she quite correctly told them they hadn't. Spark then check with Enable, who confirm they did a fibre install. And indeed they had - but at the wrong house. She takes photos of roll of unconnected fibre conduit, finds out where they'd installed the fibre by mistake, drives half-way across town to a Spark store, explains the situation to them, they must have checked with "head office" who tell them that fibre has been installed and is working - won't listen when she tells them that they installed it at the wrong address - "you must be wrong". A two hour waste of time.

I go around this morning to take a look, nothing had been installed, Enable via Telecom had told her where on the property the fibre had been laid, sure enough, it's visible - running up between two heatpumps on the wrong house.

It took me about half an hour on the phone to Spark, first call centre operator couldn't understand, passed it up the chain, it still took me 20 minutes to be satisfied that they understood the mistake - they kept coming back with "but it's connected at #123A Penny Lane, it's a fault - we need to find out what the fault is" - this despite me telling them multiple times that the fault was they'd connected up Flat 1 123 Penny Lane - not 123A. Lucky them - they got a free fibre install and free UFB internet for about 8 weeks.

Nothing I told them was any different to what she had. Only difference was that eventually they listened to me - probably only because I'm not an elderly woman. Hopefully will be sorted in a few days. These idiots should offer some kind of apology and compensation - give her a gift or something. The friend has offered me a meal out with my SO for sorting out the problem when I really did nothing, I won't accept it.

This kind of crap from service providers seems to be getting worse.

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#2795458 14-Oct-2021 18:25

Behodar:
Geektastic: That I can help with.

Crisps used to come with the salt in a separate twist of paper. The customer added the salt. Ready salted was the evolution of that in which the separate salt was removed.

Interesting! I don't believe I've ever seen that.

Well isn't that a bit like advertising air seats as non smoking.

Has anyone seen chips for sale in nz where you add salt really. Never come across them before and I ate _alot_ of chips in those teenager yes.

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#2795504 14-Oct-2021 19:16

People who ooze over threads by posting wall of text responses to nearly every other post. I am not commenting on the quality of the posts, just the volume. It gets tiresome and puts other people off. They don't have to muzzle themselves, just exercise some discretionary judgement and dial it back a little.

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#2795661 15-Oct-2021 07:08

afe66:

Has anyone seen chips for sale in nz where you add salt really. Never come across them before and I ate _alot_ of chips in those teenager years.

I've been eating chips in NZ for 70 years and have never seen separate salt. When I was a kid in the 1950's we used to get Saratoga brand chips in a 200x200x200 mm cube tin can with a clip-in circular lid. They were ready-salted.

DIY salt was a thing in the UK - and maybe still is. I know this because watching telly 30-40 years ago, the punters in the Rovers on Coro opened their chips, ripped the little paper sachet and sprinkled the salt. 😀

Edit: Just found this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walkers-Salt-Shake-Multipack-Crisps/dp/B000KI3APY

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#2795689 15-Oct-2021 08:27

The fact that the titles of
What's something small that really annoys you?
and
What's something small that really makes you smile?
get cut off in tabs, making them hard to differentiate from each other.

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#2795705 15-Oct-2021 08:54

Gurezaemon:

The fact that the titles of
What's something small that really annoys you?
and
What's something small that really makes you smile?
get cut off in tabs, making them hard to differentiate from each other.

FTFY.

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#2795708 15-Oct-2021 08:56

freitasm:

Gurezaemon:

The fact that the titles of
What's something small that really annoys you?
and
What's something small that really makes you smile?
get cut off in tabs, making them hard to differentiate from each other.

FTFY.

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#2795710 15-Oct-2021 08:57

God bless capitalism -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/14/merck-drug-prices-us-healthcare-big-pharma

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#2795762 15-Oct-2021 09:09

freitasm:
Gurezaemon:

The fact that the titles of
What's something small that really annoys you?
and
What's something small that really makes you smile?
get cut off in tabs, making them hard to differentiate from each other.

FTFY.

Don’t know if it’s just me but I can’t vote in this thread. Am signed in, have turned iPad on and off. Still can’t vote.

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