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

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#2911182 6-May-2022 22:53

neb:
Jase2985:
so hand on your saying the top one is rubbish and the bottom one is better?

The bottom one is a full sized brush that's had years of use in the workshop, the top is the dinky little thing that's the best I've managed to find to try and replace it.

Have you looked at NZ Safety Blackwoods web site ?
A few brushes there that would be more suitable for a workshop

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#2911193 6-May-2022 23:02

SepticSceptic: Have you looked at NZ Safety Blackwoods web site ?
A few brushes there that would be more suitable for a workshop

Yup, looked at every obvious place to get them.

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#2911348 7-May-2022 17:05

When you go to purchase a piece of software online and the licensing states:

"The validity of the single user option after activation is for a lifetime"

However when you get to the payment page for the Single User version, it states:

"US$49.97 every 6 Months" !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#2911355 7-May-2022 17:44

Youtube channels that have an opening title sequence. Graphics, montage, crappy music. I don't need this. It adds nothing to the video and wastes time.

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#2911356 7-May-2022 17:49

Same with websites forgetting that their purpose is to give you information, not to be filled with graphics, animations, unrelated videos...

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#2911389 7-May-2022 19:50

Journeyman:

Youtube channels that have an opening title sequence. Graphics, montage, crappy music. I don't need this. It adds nothing to the video and wastes time.

Install sponsorblock and if its something popular someone will have tagged those parts so they will skip if you choose to. Just need it on the xbox, android box or smart tv to make my life better now.

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#2911393 7-May-2022 19:55

Behodar:

Same with websites forgetting that their purpose is to give you information, not to be filled with graphics, animations, unrelated videos...

If they have these 'features', their purpose is to make money. The providing the information part is merely there to get you to watch advertising.

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#2911405 7-May-2022 20:49

Argh.

Driving from Albany to Whakatane. You have to cross the Kaimais and there are three main routes. We go to the middle route and find that there's been a crash and the road will be blocked for an hour or so. Turn around, drive south for 15-20 km and cross at the southern route. A crash has just happened there too. Wait 45 minutes and finally get told that they're closing the road and that we need to turn around. The middle route is now open again, so if only we'd just waited there...

Total trip time: 6.5 hours.

Update: Found some news about the southern crash. Injuries are never good, and of course my post wasn't intended to make light of the crashes themselves.

Update 2: For anyone interested, the other one.

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#2911427 7-May-2022 21:53

Behodar:

Received via SMS:

"Kia ora [not my name], you are a COVID-19 Household Close Contact. You must self-isolate [blah blah blah, link to legitimate site]. If you have received this by mistake, please continue to follow current COVID-19 guidance."

That last sentence implies that they frequently send these to the wrong people...

When this was posted, I defended the MoH and their systems. Over the last few days I have come to realise what a mistake that actually was.

My wife kindly brought me a bottle of whisky back from Gallipoli recently (that part belongs in the other thread). As required, she took her day 0 test (-ve), and logged it with MoH. Day 2 she's feeling average, takes another test and it's +ve. Logs that, enters my number and I get the text mentioned above. She also gets a text about isolating, links to extra info, and a phone call from an RN. All good so far. Day 4 (about the same time I'm starting to feel average - turns out that bottle of whisky came with some free covid...) she gets a text from MoH reminding her that she needs to do her day 4 test. She's already told them she has covid - what good will another test do?! She got another reminder on day 5, and another on day 6. On freedom day she got yet another message, this time saying that her isolation was up, and that if she was symptom free, she was able to leave home. Oh, shortly followed by another reminder to do her test...

I logged my +ve test as required, got the text telling me to isolate etc etc - as well as a link to follow to fill out my household contact. I chose to ignore that (unwisely it would turn out) as my only other contact was already +ve. I got a call from an RN too - we yarned for ages, she was lovely. I told her I hadn't filled the form out and why, she said don't worry about it. 0322 the next morning, I am woken by a text from Moh telling me I need to fill their form out! Seriously, had no one thought to put some sort of check in place restricting the hours the messages are sent?

Apologies @behodar, I was wrong - the clowns running that circus need a swift kick in the pants.

/rant.

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#2911459 7-May-2022 23:12

'It's not you, it's your car': Vigilante climate group deflate SUV tyres across Auckland | Stuff.co.nz

Crimes Act 1961 No 43 (as at 28 September 2017), Public Act 226 Conversion of vehicle or other conveyance – New Zealand Legislation

Two years in prison will put an end to it. Not that anyone would get stung for that until they perhaps target the wrong vehicle that might otherwise be required for an emergence.

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#2911483 8-May-2022 07:38

Gurezaemon:

Behodar:

Same with websites forgetting that their purpose is to give you information, not to be filled with graphics, animations, unrelated videos...

If they have these 'features', their purpose is to make money. The providing the information part is merely there to get you to watch advertising.

My own employer's site is guilty, and it doesn't contain any advertising in the traditional sense. However, it has 'features' such as when you open a page about water quality then you're given a video of a river with clear flowing water. The site refuses to grow past a certain window size, because someone in marketing has decided that their preferences are more important than the customer's. When you open a page, the headings all appear as a blur and play a short animation of them becoming crisp. Things like that; they're not advertising and I can't imagine that they make us any money...

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#2911699 8-May-2022 20:53

Website design is remarkably poor in small businesses.

The lady that does massage for me had no idea that if you opened her site on a phone, the Book Now button was actually invisible!

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#2911733 9-May-2022 07:45

People who pollute datasets. There was just a minor earthquake near Whakatane. Someone submitted a "felt" report to Geonet, claiming that they felt it in Christchurch. What is the purpose of this? Do earthquake deniers exist or something?

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#2911794 9-May-2022 11:24

Deciding whether to fork out for this -

https://www.jbhifi.co.nz/drama/alfred-hitchcock-classics-collection/409691/

$99. Yikes. OTOH its Hitchcock, its 4K, its 5 movies, its only $20 each, its cheaper than anywhere else I can find.

But $99!

So, you know me and indecision. Annoying.

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#2911807 9-May-2022 11:56

I admire people who have the courage of their convictions, and get off their assets and actually do something. OTOH criminal damage isn't the way to do it. Maybe something more like this -

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/08/picnic-protesters-duke-of-somerset-woods-right-to-roam-totnes

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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