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

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#2745847 17-Jul-2021 16:12

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've complained to them several times about getting this nag message even although we still subscribe to a print edition of the DomPost. Seems they have no way of dealing with this.

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#2745853 17-Jul-2021 16:47

Rikkitic:
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.

Google are amateurs compared to Microsoft. They're the world's foremost experts in pointless circle-jerk wild-goose-chase sign-in bollocks. "Been signing in successfully for the last six months? Hah! Gotcha! Today we're going to make you spend half an hour running around in circles chasing your tail trying to find answers to questions we'll ask that you don't know and never knew. Strap yourselves in, this is gonna take awhile...".

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#2745862 17-Jul-2021 17:20

The pointlessness of Bunnings' special order desks. They all work roughly like this:

You go to the Special Orders desk. There's no-one there. There's never anyone there, no matter how long you wait. If you try and phone them, the phone rings forever and never gets answered. When you get another Bunnings person to call someone to the desk, no-one turns up. Perhaps by the third time they call someone to the desk, a droid turns up that executes the following script:

"Um, I don't really know how to do this, I've never done a special order before. Let me try and figure it out. [mucking around]. Let me see if I can call someone else".

Second droid turns up:

"Um, I don't really know how to do this, I've never done a special order before. Let me ...".

I think you'd have more luck asking some random stranger on the street, at least that way you get an immediate response.

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#2745868 17-Jul-2021 17:54

@Rikkitic given some peoples entire life are behind the gmail/google password do you think its appropriate to have a good level of security? or would you rather their account be easily accessible to any old hacker?

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#2745879 17-Jul-2021 18:14

Jase2985:

@Rikkitic given some peoples entire life are behind the gmail/google password do you think its appropriate to have a good level of security? or would you rather their account be easily accessible to any old hacker?

If you want to protect people from any old hacker, start by finding a way to prevent them from clicking on phishing emails. Google security is mostly closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

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#2746400 19-Jul-2021 08:03

Getting promotional emails that I didn't sign up for. The text in the footer says "You are receiving this email because we have registered your interest in Redgate". Not that I've registered my interest, but that they have!

There's a "manage and unsubscribe" link that goes to a page saying "Select the emails you'd like to receive then save your preferences" with no further text.

Welcome to the spam block, Redgate!

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#2746424 19-Jul-2021 09:16

neb:

They're the world's foremost experts in pointless circle-jerk wild-goose-chase sign-in bollocks. "Been signing in successfully for the last six months? Hah! Gotcha! Today we're going to make you spend half an hour running around in circles chasing your tail trying to find answers to questions we'll ask that you don't know and never knew. Strap yourselves in, this is gonna take awhile...".

Would you mind if I quote this next time someone asks me when I'm going to give in to Google's demands and add OAuth 2.0 support to my software?

The point of open standards is to make systems interoperable, not to allow companies like Google and Microsoft to arbitrarily impose restrictions based on what they deem to be acceptable software.

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#2746493 19-Jul-2021 11:21

Horse float and horse truck drivers who drive well below the speed limit and steadfastly refuse to pull over to let traffic past.

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#2746605 19-Jul-2021 13:29

Kerbing my 9 day old car in a parking lot ...

Followed by knowing my insurance premium will go up next year because I have claimed

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#2746606 19-Jul-2021 13:31

@Technofreak Caravan owner here. Roads sidings in Aotearoa are terrible. The places in which one can pull over safely are few and far between. I can imagine it is worse for someone towing a loaded horse box. The maximum allowable speed is 90km/h and given the longer braking distances, the type of roads in Aotearoa 90km/h is hard to achieve safely.

We pull over as often as we can and slow right down at passing lanes to allow as many cars through. Keep in mind a siding or verge that may look ok for a car to pull into they can be a dangerous nightmare when towing.

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#2746631 19-Jul-2021 14:04

MikeB4: @Technofreak Caravan owner here. Roads sidings in Aotearoa are terrible. The places in which one can pull over safely are few and far between. I can imagine it is worse for someone towing a loaded horse box. The maximum allowable speed is 90km/h and given the longer braking distances, the type of roads in Aotearoa 90km/h is hard to achieve safely.

We pull over as often as we can and slow right down at passing lanes to allow as many cars through. Keep in mind a siding or verge that may look ok for a car to pull into they can be a dangerous nightmare when towing.

I acknowledge the road sidings are not great in many places and the addition of road side barriers haven't helped.

In my experience caravan owners are generally pretty good and pull over where and when they can. I'm talking about examples where there are suitable places to pull over yet these people make no effort to let following traffic past.

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#2746635 19-Jul-2021 14:10

I much prefer towing at night, there's usually less traffic, it's easier for impatient idiots to see oncoming car headlights and rethink dangerous passing manoeuvres it's easier for me to see car headlights behind, and with the cooler air temps, the tow vehicle runs better. My SO isn't so enthralled however, she likes to stop at "roadside attractions" be that art galleries, food stops, or whatever. I have to feign deafness as an excuse when I've driven past the gallery I deliberately didn't stop at.

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#2746636 19-Jul-2021 14:10

nzkiwiman:

Kerbing my 9 day old car in a parking lot ...

Followed by knowing my insurance premium will go up next year because I have claimed

Ouch!!!! One reason why I avoid low profile tyres on a vehicle.

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#2746638 19-Jul-2021 14:20

Technofreak:

nzkiwiman:

Kerbing my 9 day old car in a parking lot ...

Followed by knowing my insurance premium will go up next year because I have claimed

Ouch!!!! One reason why I avoid low profile tyres on a vehicle.

Look on the bright side. You have got one of the pain points of owning a new car out of the road. Now for the first supermarket door ding, the first stone chip, ….……

I do feel your pain, particularly (in the latter cases) when it is due to the lack of care and consideration by others.

Edit: Just read your insurance post in the transport thread. I assumed you had kerbed one of your wheels not grounded the bumper on the kerb. Still painful in both instances.

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#2746643 19-Jul-2021 14:28

Delivery times on large customer orders getting longer and longer.

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