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

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#3043749 1-Mar-2023 19:01

Handsomedan:

My small fluffy dog has to sleep next to me. He’s like a small radiator emitting heat no matter the season.

Great in summer.

He also snores. Really loudly.

Last night he howled like a wolf in his sleep. Thankfully he slept though it all. So glad he had a great night’s sleep

Try getting your eyeballs licked at 4am because it thinks now would be a good time for me to feed him...

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#3043792 2-Mar-2023 02:46

Bung: I noticed that xtra email wasn't responding in the early hours of this morning. The Spark web site and the App had also stopped.
If Spark has to go off line to make changes is just disappearing the best that they can do?

They can do better after all 😀

"Maintenance in progress
We’re working on some changes right now.

Some services are currently unavailable. We appreciate your patience. Everything should be back to normal soon."

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#3043835 2-Mar-2023 08:50

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Post Haste also failed to deliver today as well...

They really ought to change the name of their business. They are always - by far - the slowest courier I ever get sent things by.

I would really like to see the system introduced that is quite common when you buy from US based companies and they list 3 or 4 courier services and rates and let you choose which one you want to pay for. At the moment, the sender picks rather than the recipient.

I think we both know everyone would pick the cheapest and then still complain!

At least Fastway actually rebranded to recognise that they were not, in fact, the fast way at all (it was actually being bought by Aramex, but still. Now there's a courier everyone loves to despise with the fire of a thousand suns).

In Australia, there's even one comically called "CouriersPlease". I usually refer to it as "Couriers? Please."

I would pick the fastest as I usually do given the option.

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#3043837 2-Mar-2023 08:56

The parcel eventually arrived yesterday.

I rang Coural who take the parcels because obviously expecting couriers to deliver things themselves outside urban areas is unreasonable…

They were helpful and asked me to ring Post Haste and get the Coural ticket number. PH told me that there wasn’t one. I reported that to Coural, who said well it won’t get delivered if there isn’t one.

Box turns up 4 hours later. With a Coural ticket front and centre. So not only did PH take over a week to deliver something sent on a 2 day service, they then apparently lied about its details when asked.

I complained firmly to PH and suggested that since they’d failed to do what they were paid for, they should refund the shipping. I got in essence a very long and rather insipid “yeah, nah. Sorry about that.”

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#3044186 3-Mar-2023 09:51

I've been making home coffee (latte's mainly) for over a decade.

I still can't achieve anything resembling latte art.

The best I have done (probably ever) is this:

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#3044188 3-Mar-2023 09:58

Handsomedan:

I've been making home coffee (latte's mainly) for over a decade.

I still can't achieve anything resembling latte art.

The best I have done (probably ever) is this:

My son worked worked as a Barista while at University. He was brilliant at it (no bias, honest) and tried to teach me how. It was a disaster. My skill lay elsewhere. My wife is great at it but she is an artist and in my mind that is why she can do it.

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#3044192 3-Mar-2023 10:04

MikeB4:

Handsomedan:

I've been making home coffee (latte's mainly) for over a decade.

I still can't achieve anything resembling latte art.

The best I have done (probably ever) is this:

My son worked worked as a Barista while at University. He was brilliant at it (no bias, honest) and tried to teach me how. It was a disaster. My skill lay elsewhere. My wife is great at it but she is an artist and in my mind that is why she can do it.

It's definitely more of a skill than a good barista makes it look!

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#3044210 3-Mar-2023 10:26

Handsomedan:

I've been making home coffee (latte's mainly) for over a decade.

I still can't achieve anything resembling latte art.

The best I have done (probably ever) is this:

That's a nice tree with the zig-zag and draw-through. Curve the zig-zag and the draw-through and you have a silver fern!

Make some blobs and zig-zags and random draw-through, then once complete decide what it looks like.

Experiment with blobs instead of zig-zags.

You just have to risk making a few disasters.

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#3044297 3-Mar-2023 12:35

Handsomedan:

It's definitely more of a skill than a good barista makes it look!

That's pretty much the definition of expertise isn't it?
An expert is someone who makes an activity which is actually difficult and complex look to be easy.

for example, if you just watch a really good plasterer and gib stopper finish off a wall, it looks soooo easy, almost effortless.
Then you try it yourself :(

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#3044300 3-Mar-2023 12:59

PolicyGuy:

Handsomedan:

It's definitely more of a skill than a good barista makes it look!

That's pretty much the definition of expertise isn't it?
An expert is someone who makes an activity which is actually difficult and complex look to be easy.

for example, if you just watch a really good plasterer and gib stopper finish off a wall, it looks soooo easy, almost effortless.
Then you try it yourself :(

This is so true of so many things...back in the 80's and 90's I was a hairdresser. Good ones always made it look easy...myself included. We were rarely acknowledged for our skill and certainly not compensated for the level of skill. An 8000 hr apprenticeship seemingly gave us the training we needed to do these things that others couldn't...it's never as easy as it looks.

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#3044303 3-Mar-2023 13:12

People at my local New World have taken to parking in the dedicated Click and Collect parking spots when they are just 'regular' shoppers. The parks, clearly designated and with clear signs, are right next to the click and collect lockers which is super convenient as the click and collect shopping often isn't packaged up into easy to transport bags or boxes. It is also under cover.

We've paid for the convenience of click and collect but are not receiving the full benefit. When i've grumbled to the people who parked there to go shopping they always tell me to get over myself and park in the carpark somewhere, an action they were clearly not prepared to do themselves.

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#3044304 3-Mar-2023 13:15

duckDecoy:

People at my local New World have taken to parking in the dedicated Click and Collect parking spots when they are just 'regular' shoppers. The parks, clearly designated and with clear signs, are right next to the click and collect lockers which is super convenient as the click and collect shopping often isn't packaged up into easy to transport bags or boxes. It is also under cover.

We've paid for the convenience of click and collect but are not receiving the full benefit. When i've grumbled to the people who parked there to go shopping they always tell me to get over myself and park in the carpark somewhere, an action they were clearly not prepared to do themselves.

Hard to go home with your shopping on 2 flat tires.

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#3044305 3-Mar-2023 13:20

duckDecoy:...When i've grumbled to the people who parked there to go shopping they always tell me to get over myself and park in the carpark somewhere, an action they were clearly not prepared to do themselves.

Like me, you are clearly not one of the "entitled ones" that seem to be everywhere!

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#3044308 3-Mar-2023 13:27

richms:

Hard to go home with your shopping on 2 flat tires.

I could never condone such behaviour, but I'll just say this: If they think the rules don't apply to them, that works both ways.

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#3044323 3-Mar-2023 13:59

Behodar:

I could never condone such behaviour, but I'll just say this: If they think the rules don't apply to them, that works both ways.

I also think destructive revenge, deserved as it is, puts me in a place I don't want to be. Overseas there are gadgets for just about everything. Surely an alarming noisemaker that attaches magnetically to the inside of the wheel and produces a shrieking tearing sound when spun, must be manufactured somewhere.

Or maybe you could just glue (non-destructively, of course) an enormous dildo to the boot of the car that won't loosen for a few hours. We are a creative lot here. I'm sure someone can think of something.

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