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

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#2745095 16-Jul-2021 10:59

Dingbatt:

I see he (Bezos) has donated quarter of a billion the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. Awesome!

Hope the cheque clears before blast off next week…

His statement mentioned "STEAM" - which is STEM with an A for arts. Maybe he wants his portrait hanging in the museum. (/s)

(I spent an entire week exploring the Smithsonian. I thought the Air and Space museum would be the most interesting part of it, but it wasn't to me. I guess being a child growing up in the Apollo age I was particularly fixated, so unlike the other museums it wasn't "full of stuff I'd never even imagined")

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#2745110 16-Jul-2021 11:33

invisibleman18:

Fair enough. I also don't have access to a large enough vehicle so am not able to deliver. But the frustration was more people arranging to come but then not turning up. A quick message that you can't make it because the person with the van pulled out, or you changed your mind or whatever would be appreciated rather than just not turn up when I've arranged to be home at the time.

I feel your pain. I live north of Auckland and years ago when I was faffing with car bits, I agreed to meet someone from South Auckland in Penrose, more than halfway from my place, but I was selling. About an hour's drive for me. I got there early and got a coffee, about ten minutes from when we were supposed to meet he text and said he couldn't make it.

I replied that I'd just driven an hour to meet him. He either turns up or I'll sell it to the next person. Didn't hear from them. So sold it to someone else who was keen to come to me and pick up.

It's thing like that which make me throw things out or give away rather than sell. Just so much hassle.

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#2745112 16-Jul-2021 11:37

Reference the Smithsonian A&SM.

I know it’s getting a bit off topic, but you have to be impressed when you walk into the atrium and there is (from memory) The Spirit of St Louis, Hubble, Bell X-1, Apollo LEM, NA X-15 (most of which are hanging from the ceiling). And then there’s the Udvar Hazy Center as well. Money well spent I think. Investment in STEAM is good.

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. Carl Sagan 1996

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#2745122 16-Jul-2021 12:08

Handsomedan:

MikeB4:

That we still don't have a fix for our Rav4 that is in a coma. There is still no progress in securing the parts to awaken our Rav4 from its coma. I wonder how long we should wait before we declare the vehicle deceased.

@MikeB4 have you had a proper diagnosis from theme at least? Do you know what's caused the sleepytime?

An update on the Rav4 soap opera. My wife was picking up our Rav this morning heading into the city. She rang to say that it is all going "touch wood" and all systems seem OK. Toyota have advised that a temporary fix has been applied and this should hold until the new parts arrive from Japan in a few months. They advised that it's fully covered and should anything go wrong they will recover the vehicle and give us a loan car.

I am not happy but given the state of supply(parts and vehicles) around the globe I guess we just have to cross our fingers.

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#2745143 16-Jul-2021 13:04

People who hold their phones 3 inches away from their face and use speaker mode.

Here I am quiet cafe by beach and the muppet is 20m away and u can hear both sides of the conversation..

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#2745145 16-Jul-2021 13:09

afe66: People who hold their phones 3 inches away from their face and use speaker mode.

Here I am quiet cafe by beach and the muppet is 20m away and u can hear both sides of the conversation..

I see you've met my dad.

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#2745146 16-Jul-2021 13:13

Behodar:

afe66: People who hold their phones 3 inches away from their face and use speaker mode.

Here I am quiet cafe by beach and the muppet is 20m away and u can hear both sides of the conversation..

I see you've met my dad.

And my wife!

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#2745149 16-Jul-2021 13:25

MikeB4:

An update on the Rav4 soap opera. My wife was picking up our Rav this morning heading into the city. She rang to say that it is all going "touch wood"

My heart sank when I heard that. You must never say that, it encourages the gremlins.

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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#2745150 16-Jul-2021 13:28

Dingbatt:

Reference the Smithsonian A&SM.

I know it’s getting a bit off topic, but you have to be impressed when you walk into the atrium and there is (from memory) The Spirit of St Louis, Hubble, Bell X-1, Apollo LEM, NA X-15 (most of which are hanging from the ceiling). And then there’s the Udvar Hazy Center as well. Money well spent I think. Investment in STEAM is good.

Yes - but you know those great things are there, it's impressive but not so much IMO a "learning experience". I found the Museum of American History to be incredibly fascinating - despite having low expectations - I thought it could be boring. Perhaps it is to some people.

Seeing a shuttle launch probably the most incredible thing I've ever seen (and felt), despite locals telling me "Oh but you should have been here to see the Apollo Saturn 5's - now they were really something". I hope I'm not doing the small thing that annoys me - when someone is amazed, others seem to dismiss it or a weird kind of "one-upmanship" thing happens. You see it most times on these forums when someone gets a new toy, others chime in with a list of flaws or what they should have bought. It's not really serving any constructive purpose as a "review", just annoying.

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#2745211 16-Jul-2021 15:07

MikeB4:

An update on the Rav4 soap opera. My wife was picking up our Rav this morning heading into the city. She rang to say that it is all going "touch wood" and all systems seem OK.

In order not to drag this off topic, was there a post about the original issue somewhere?

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#2745215 16-Jul-2021 15:18

mudguard:

MikeB4:

An update on the Rav4 soap opera. My wife was picking up our Rav this morning heading into the city. She rang to say that it is all going "touch wood" and all systems seem OK.

In order not to drag this off topic, was there a post about the original issue somewhere?

Despite a great temptation to answer your question with the simple "yes" it deserves, I find myself as usual - obliged only by my hugely generous spirit and overwhelmingly kind nature to fellow beings - going well out of my way to answer a question that yet another poor unfortunate of this world is unable to find for themself.

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#2745217 16-Jul-2021 15:32

elpenguino:

MikeB4:

An update on the Rav4 soap opera. My wife was picking up our Rav this morning heading into the city. She rang to say that it is all going "touch wood"

My heart sank when I heard that. You must never say that, it encourages the gremlins.

Let's live dangerously. However discretion requires us to keep the Gremlins dry and not feed them after dark unless of course you want to double down on living dangerously 😀

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#2745706 17-Jul-2021 13:10

While looking at Stuff (Newspaper site) repeatedly getting getting nag messages to subscribe when about half of anything I read if grammatically incorrect, or contains obvious spelling errors!

Why would I support that?

It's like funding a plastic car jack that breaks! (Yes - there is apparently one, and no I didn't fund or buy it!)

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#2745740 17-Jul-2021 13:27

msukiwi:
While looking at Stuff (Newspaper site) repeatedly getting getting nag messages to subscribe when about half of anything I read if grammatically incorrect, or contains obvious spelling errors!

Why would I support that?

It's like funding a plastic car jack that breaks! (Yes - there is apparently one, and no I didn't fund or buy it!)

I guess no one's perfect ;-)

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

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#2745843 17-Jul-2021 15:41

Google security. What a pointy pain in the derrière that is! It astounds me how a high tech company extensively involved in sophisticated software projects can come up with such a clumsy steaming pile of illogical user-unfriendly crap. It is like they went out of their way to design the most unintuitive awkward stupid hard to use system they could possibly think of.

I have repeatedly encountered their recursive head up the arse lets go around in more circles rubbish on the pc, but this time I had to deal with it on a Mac. I am trying to set up email on a laptop for a very ill person in a rest home. I am not an Apple person and I have little experience with it. That is hard enough. But eventually I was able to get the email working in one direction. It is a Gmail account and that’s where the security crap comes in. First, Google goes absolutely ballistic because I try to log in on a computer different than the one that has been normally used in the past. It starts screeching that an unauthorised person may have accessed the account and then sprays demands for logins and security questions and god knows what else. It is just a private email account, for christsake. It is not the presidential nuclear codes.

At first I couldn’t get online at all, but that wasn’t Google’s fault. The DNS servers had been manually set for geo-unblocking and didn’t work from a different IP address. Once I figured that out the laptop started receiving email. But I couldn’t send any. A box kept popping up demanding a password. No other information of any kind, no explanation, no nothing, just password. I thought I knew the password but it kept being rejected. I tried to find it on the Apple, but I’m not that familiar with it so finally had to go home in defeat and get it from the pc.

Another day, another try, back and forth, but Google doesn’t care. It actually took three days and that many trips in total. The password was correct but Google wouldn’t accept it.

What I finally worked out, painfully and slowly over time, was that I had to log into the Google account, thread through the convoluted security nonsense, and convince Google that I had a right to use the computer I was using by answering a security question I didn’t have an answer to. The only thing that made this work was that one of the security questions was the name of the account holder’s daughter. Knowing the account holder, I didn’t think for a moment that would work, but I tried it and it did. Suddenly everything magically started working normally and the stupid password box disappeared. But if he hadn’t set up that security question, which is something he would normally never do, and I hadn’t known the answer, I would still be trying to find a workaround.

From past experience, I think Google security is way over the top for any normal user and it just irritates me anyway. But in this one specific case I have a specific complaint, and that is that Google kept popping up that singularly useless (and incorrect!) box demanding a password without any kind of explanation as to why or any clue as to how to fix whatever it was it didn’t like. This kind of thing is why I hate Google and try to avoid it as much as possible.

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