Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Mad Doug Biker]

Chewing with your mouth wide open.

I am in a restaurant and am witnessing some utter imbecile doing it.

He's about 20, too. 🙄🙄

At least he's not as bad as the guy I once saw at Euston who actually looked like a dog when he ate though.

 

[Electric_Andy]

A few things this week:

1. Amazon website. You used to be able to select for example appliances>washing machines>drill down further. Now you select a category and it just pulls up "most popular", "most wished for" etc. It has become more like a social media page than a helpful search function. I've found I now have to use the AI feature to get a succint list of what I'm looking for.

2. You get copied into an email in error, so you tell the sender this is a mistake and please replace me with xxx@email.net. They ignore you and for the last 3 days I've been bombarded with emails intended for another organisation.

3. Someone at work insists on working in the most inefficient way. We have a shared Gmail inbox which has an excellent search feature if you want to find an old email. But this person insists on creating a folder (which is only really a label) for over 100 categories of email, and drags each email in there. This is now forced on the rest of us, so you spend more time labelling/dragging emails into mock-folders than you do actually replying and doing work

 

[matticus]

At least he's not as bad as the guy I once saw at Euston who actually looked like a dog when he ate though.

At least that's a marketable skill. A well as talent shows, and circus roles, he can always fall back on Guide Dog gigs, stuff like that.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Our local newspaper website...ad-laden hell. You can't read comments without a huge ad deliberately blocking things. And if I ever find out who invented pop ups.... .

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

At least that's a marketable skill. A well as talent shows, and circus roles, he can always fall back on Guide Dog gigs, stuff like that.

I doubt it was marketable, he just looked like he shouldn't have been let out alone 🙄🤦‍♂️🤣

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Our local newspaper website...ad-laden hell. You can't read comments without a huge ad deliberately blocking things. And if I ever find out who invented pop ups.... .

The Southampton Echo site is loaded with horrendous ads, I'll only visit it via incognito browser page these days.

 

[Webbo2]

Ordered some coffee beans from the local roasters 8 miles away. Got a message to say they are on the way and are at the parcel force distribution centre 60 miles away.

 

[classic33]

Our local newspaper website...ad-laden hell. You can't read comments without a huge ad deliberately blocking things. And if I ever find out who invented pop ups.... .

Ethan Zuckerman, who later publicly apologized for the "unforeseen nuisance" of pop-up ads, acknowledging that the innovation became one of the most annoying features of the internet.

 

[ColinJ]

And if I ever find out who invented pop ups.... .

I got caught out by a pop up over a pop up last week when ordering my new Android tablet! I was trying to type 'Todmorden' into the town/city field, but it wouldn't let me. It took me ages to notice that after I typed the post code in, a pop up appeared with a suggested choice. The problem was that the second pop up almost entirely covered the first one.

When I finally spotted that, I found that the only choice for town/city was 'West Yorkshire'... In the end, I typed 'Todmorden' into a redundant 'apartment' field, just to be sure that they knew where to deliver to!

 

[Profpointy]

Amazon & Ebay - stop showing me alternative recommendations for something I've just purchased. Why would I want to buy a pair of headphones (or whatever) when I bought some a couple of weeks ago?

Someone did a rather amusing rant about the very same thing after purchasing a new bog seat from Amazon. Thereafter she got loads of spam advertising toilet seats. As she put it "I had a broken toilet seat, so after a bit of browsing I bought a replacement. I am not a collector of toilet seats!"

In a similar vein, when I first came across Hoggs, who, to be fair, are an excellent vendor of "country clothing", they were mainly a seller of robust country shoes. I bought a pair of hefty commando soled shoes, which would do any gamekeeper proud, so they sent me their catalogue ever couple of months. However 3 years later when my shoes were shot even after a couple of resoles, they'd stopped sending me the catalogue !

 

[ColinJ]

Welcome to episode #358 of 'ColinJ discovers something that everyone else already knew, and eventually comes with an obvious solution':

I was annoyed beyond expectations just now when trying to use a trackpad immediately after washing my hands and finding that my degreased fingers were dragging horribly on its surface. Then I had a brainwave - It is a few hours since I last washed my face so my forehead had plenty of natural lube on it... I swiped my fingers back and forth on it a few times and now they glide nicely over the trackpad again!

 

[Electric_Andy]

Welcome to episode #358 of 'ColinJ discovers something that everyone else already knew, and eventually comes with an obvious solution':

I was annoyed beyond expectations just now when trying to use a trackpad immediately after washing my hands and finding that my degreased fingers were dragging horribly on its surface. Then I had a brainwave - It is a few hours since I last washed my face so my forehead had plenty of natural lube on it... I swiped my fingers back and forth on it a few times and now they glide nicely over the trackpad again!

It works well on the side of one's nose as well! Damhik

 

[Jenkins]

How on earth can they justify £2.80 each way for the Dartford Crossing and impose a minimum £15 top up for pre-payment accounts.

 

[Jameshow]

How on earth can they justify £2.80 each way for the Dartford Crossing and impose a minimum £15 top up for pre-payment accounts.

Because they expect you to use it regularly. And they want to collect fines off infrequent users!

 

[Alex321]

How on earth can they justify £2.80 each way for the Dartford Crossing and impose a minimum £15 top up for pre-payment accounts.

Given the cost of building it, £2.80 each way doesn't seem al that unreasonable.

And it is a reasonable assumption that pre-paid accounts will be people who use it regularly, so making the minimum top up less than the cost of three round trips also doesn't seem all that unreasonable.