Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Alex321]

Adverts where they give the price just as single digit number, no pounds, no"hunbdred" or similar.

So "only three-nine-nine" for a £399 sofa.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

General thing
but The Liverpool Echo has started making a lot of its articles "Premium"
basically everything worth reading, you now have to pay for
it's only £4.99 a month - but that is £60 a year and the Echo is just not worth that much

OK - they used to have adverts and I installed a d blocked to get rid of them
BUT - I did that because the ads made the website painfully slow - well beyond any other site I tried
I did send them an email pointing out that the ads slowed the whole thing down to a stupid level but it made no difference

but their current concept of making everything "Premium" if it is even slightly worth reading seems to be extracting the whatsit!

 

[Chris S]

General thing
but The Liverpool Echo has started making a lot of its articles "Premium"
basically everything worth reading, you now have to pay for
it's only £4.99 a month - but that is £60 a year and the Echo is just not worth that much

OK - they used to have adverts and I installed a d blocked to get rid of them
BUT - I did that because the ads made the website painfully slow - well beyond any other site I tried
I did send them an email pointing out that the ads slowed the whole thing down to a stupid level but it made no difference

but their current concept of making everything "Premium" if it is even slightly worth reading seems to be extracting the whatsit!

You normally get the first few lines for free. You then search for the names (etc) in Google News.

 

[lazybloke]

I'm quite annoyed by the current Kefir TV advert that starts with a montage of plants, including Foxgloves.

Mmmmmmmm, what does digitalis taste like?

 

[Chris S]

I'm quite annoyed by the current Kefir TV advert

They couldn't call it that in South Africa, it's a racial slur.

 

[ColinJ]

They couldn't call it that in South Africa, it's a racial slur.

Isn't that 'kaffir'?

But, speaking of 'kefir'... I am thinking of making my own, and also Greek-style yoghurt. It looks easy and should be 50+% cheaper than buying them ready-made. I will buy a few more big tubs of Greek yoghurt and keep the containers.

 

[Profpointy]

That is a brilliant story! Even better with the pic of the goose:

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I'd have been tempted to invite it for dinner

 

[Profpointy]

The sodium carbonate is there to get some bubbling going, to help spread the active ingredient (sodium hydroxide) to where it can work.

Why would sodium carbonate bubble?

 

[Dadam]

Why would sodium carbonate bubble?

Gives off CO2 when combined with an acid.

 

[Profpointy]

Gives off CO2 when combined with an acid.

Well yes, but isn't the scenario in question combining it with sodium hydroxide, a strong alkali

 

[Chris S]

Prompts like this appearing on my ebay feed. Who would want to buy a used yoga band?

 

[lazybloke]

I hate my news feed being polluted by sh*t like this. Horoscopes too.

 

[ColinJ]

I hate my news feed being polluted by sh*t like this. Horoscopes too.
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That's the kind of reason why I would never have a news feed, and rarely accept push notifications.

 

[classic33]

I hate my news feed being polluted by sh*t like this. Horoscopes too.
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Twelfth Night normally.

 

[figbat]

Twelfth Night normally.

Which most people get wrong, thinking it is 12 days after Christmas, not realising that Christmas Day is the first night. But it's all poppycock anyway.