Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[SuffolkBlue]

It's cheaper than it was, that's the main thing.

Thinking about it then I suppose I have a concern. They are transferring to a new direct debit provider and setting up a new direct debit so if they actually request this ridiculous figure of 14 decimal places from my bank that it will be flagged as invalid or a scam bot type attempt and they'll block the payment.

I'll make some enquiries!!!

 

[gbb]

Adverts generally (i think I've said that before) but the latest advert from Audible, that sketch where he keeps saying exsqueeze me. ...
Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

 

[Chris S]

Trivago telling me that a hotel is 0.5 miles from the airport. Then when I check on Google Maps it's 0.5 miles from the perimeter fence and 2.5 miles from the terminal building. I'd still have to rely on a taxi to get me there for a dawn flight.

 

[ktmbiker58]

Automated phone answering services - I've got more chance of getting passed Mrs Avery to speak to Sylvia than get passed the AI bot to renew my car insurance !

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Automated phone answering services - I've got more chance of getting passed Mrs Avery to speak to Sylvia than get passed the AI bot to renew my car insurance !

That's not actually trivial at all. You need to perform what should be a fairly basic task but you're met with a range of options that require e.g. that you have full understanding of how the company you're calling classifies its internal functions so they can route it to the correct department. Why should you know that new insurance policies are handled by sales while renewals are handled by customer care, but that queries are handled by marketing etc.? Your time and money (assuming the call is charged by your provider in some way) is wasted as you go down the wrong branch of their decision tree and end up having to start over.

And Lord help you if there isn't an option that will lead you to a human eventually. I recently wanted to make a complaint about a feature in an app and went through a completely AI chatbot "help" system where I couldn't get any human interaction at all and the precise complaint I had wasn't listed anywhere. It forced me down branches of the tree that weren't obvious until I was left with an option that was "other form of complaint - end chat". The only way of saying you had a complaint that wasn't listed was to literally choose the option to stop your complaint. That eventually cost me about an hour of my time and didn't lead to any resolution of my issue, but did lead to me wanting to cave the whoever was responsible's face in with a shovel.

EDIT: The term "Ensh*ttification" has been coined to deal with this mainly techno worsening of our lived experience.

 

[Chris S]

Fonts that use ambiguous 'I' and 'l' ('I' and 'L') characters. You can normally work out the word from the rest of the letters but not if it's an initial (etc).

 

[Electric_Andy]

Always the same, you have a problem and there's no phone number. You go around in circles trying to find "contact us" and are always directed to frequently asked questions which are irrelevant. Finally get a number and it's option 1, option 4, option 2, put on hold, wait 20 mins, automated message saying please try again when less busy

 

[Pblakeney]

Always the same, you have a problem and there's no phone number. You go around in circles trying to find "contact us" and are always directed to frequently asked questions which are irrelevant. Finally get a number and it's option 1, option 4, option 2, put on hold, wait 20 mins, automated message saying please try again when less busy

Simple. You have a complaint. They don't want to hear it. You think you are important as a customer/user? 😂😂😂😂

 

[pjd57]

Most media outlets not using the word " English " in front of the name of sports bodies or events .
The FA cup
The Premier League
The football association

Which FA cup ? Which football association ?

 

[Jameshow]

Most media outlets not using the word " English " in front of the name of sports bodies or events .
The FA cup
The Premier League
The football association

Which FA cup ? Which football association ?

Because we instinctively know which one!

It would be annoying as northern folk who say our Jane, our Nigel etc...

 

[Alex321]

Most media outlets not using the word " English " in front of the name of sports bodies or events .
The FA cup
The Premier League
The football association

Which FA cup ? Which football association ?

THE FA Cup, THE Premier league, THE Football Association.

The only questionable one there is the Premier league, because there are other associations have a league just called the Premier League.

But there is only one body whose formal name is The Football Association (FA), and so also only one FA Cup.

All other countries who have a similarly named association will have the name formally prefixed, so it is the Scottish FA, etc. And their similar cup would be the SFA cup.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

THE FA Cup, THE Premier league, THE Football Association.

The only questionable one there is the Premier league, because there are other associations have a league just called the Premier League.

But there is only one body whose formal name is The Football Association (FA), and so also only one FA Cup.

All other countries who have a similarly named association will have the name formally prefixed, so it is the Scottish FA, etc. And their similar cup would be the SFA cup.

The Wikipedia disambiguation page is quite heavy for Premier League. It's a long list, but a quick browse doesn't seem to suggest any other country officially calls their league the Premier League without a national qualifier or a sport type qualifier (e.g. Premier League Snooker) - at least not in English.

 

[SuffolkBlue]

Most media outlets not using the word " English " in front of the name of sports bodies or events .
The FA cup
The Premier League
The football association

Which FA cup ? Which football association ?

I suppose Swansea, Cardiff, Wrexham and Newport Football Clubs might take issue with being English ??

 

[Beebo]

Most media outlets not using the word " English " in front of the name of sports bodies or events .
The FA cup
The Premier League
The football association

Which FA cup ? Which football association ?

Interesting The Open in golf is often erroneously called the British Open, so as not to confuse it with the US Open.
But it is just The Open.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Interesting The Open in golf is often erroneously called the British Open, so as not to confuse it with the US Open.
But it is just The Open.

Speaking of which, can we just list The US here, or is that non-trivial?

My current trivial issue with the US:

American hip-hop fans that refuse to acknowledge any British acts because they've got "funny accents" they don't understand.
Also, American hip-hop fans that think because they invented it nobody else can do it properly.
Also, American hip-hop fans that don't realise that grime isn't actually hip-hop, despite the MCing, as its roots are in reggae toasting, dancehall, ragga, jungle, UK garage.

Luckily there's a cure for this annoyance, which is watching Americans react to e.g. Akala's Fire In The Booth Pt 4, which absolutely melts their brains. Warning: NSFW language (as to be expected) and the second part is very graphic.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNqlSrhUOgs&ab_channel=BBCRadio1Xtra