Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Alex321]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwn4nv2ggzo

I find my photos are visually enhanced with wind turbines in the backdrop.
They are quite majestic making it irritating that purposeful myth is used to ban them.

It isn't a myth though.

You may like them (and I often do too), but many people do dislike them. Many people like to see the natural landscape (even though little of it is truly "natural" in the UK).

 

[matticus]

It isn't a myth though.

You may like them (and I often do too), but many people do dislike them. Many people like to see the natural landscape (even though little of it is truly "natural" in the UK).

I get the ruining the landscape viewpoint. But if we step back and ask "What's the biggest threat to our landscapes?" the main answer is continued growth of our carbon footprints.

Perhaps objections should only be considered from folks who have already minimised their carbon use?

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Meanwhile, in That Escalated Quickly Corner:
Concerns were also raised about the impact on the Eskdalemuir Seismological Recording Station which plays a key part in a worldwide treaty to monitor nuclear arms testing.

 

[albion]

It isn't a myth though.

You may like them (and I often do too), but many people do dislike them. Many people like to see the natural landscape (even though little of it is truly "natural" in the UK).

Many is not a majority, though perception training certainly helps lead towards 'majority'.
In the north east a fair few villages are known for their 'farm stench'.
Visual off things are everywhere, from offroad vehicle use, to field animal overpopulation, to field solar overpopulation.
Roads are another 'blot on the landscape', though they get well accepted.

 

[lazybloke]

We keep all our flour in sealed containers.

Still had a bad infestation recently, the first in many years.

Okay, just had our worst infestation of all time. This time in french beans, that my wife dried back in autumn, then left in an open jam jar on a kitchen shelf.
When disturbed, they flew EVERYWHERE! Going to be squishing them all night!

Pea weevils? Vine weevils?
Gross, look at the holes they're escavating into the beans!

Helloooo!

 

[gbb]

Watching a space documentary the other night and the commentator referred to the tallest mountain on Mars as Olympic Mons...ooh c'mon, really !!!!!

 

[mistyoptic]

Recently completed a jigsaw. On holiday.

New one from a sealed pack. Piece missing. Searched the floor and furniture. Looked under the furniture, behind the radiator, you name it. Gave up. Emailed the company, who provide a “missing piece” service.

This morning, looked up from my kindle and, Lo!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Recently completed a jigsaw. On holiday.

New one from a sealed pack. Piece missing. Searched the floor and furniture. Looked under the furniture, behind the radiator, you name it. Gave up. Emailed the company, who provide a “missing piece” service.

This morning, looked up from my kindle and, Lo!
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This supports my theory of "mischievous imps" that live in a parallel dimension

They nip into our dimension from time to time and move something somewhere unexpected
or steal something - then return it a few days later to somewhere that you KNOW you looked several times

or sometimes a combination of the 2

This is a good explanation of many things that I have observed over many years!

 

[albion]

They live in the great realm of defeatism.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Customers.

(Not all of them, just the usual 20%)

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Kitchen roll that's perforated at half-square intervals, so when you go to tear off a square you inevitably get a useless strip instead.

 

[Jameshow]

Recently completed a jigsaw. On holiday.

New one from a sealed pack. Piece missing. Searched the floor and furniture. Looked under the furniture, behind the radiator, you name it. Gave up. Emailed the company, who provide a “missing piece” service.

This morning, looked up from my kindle and, Lo!
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Spent half an hour looking for dust pan brush! Under the kitchen cabinet! 🤣

 

[ColinJ]

Kitchen roll that's perforated at half-square intervals, so when you go to tear off a square you inevitably get a useless strip instead.

I have the opposite problem - kitchen rolls so big that tearing off a whole square gives too much. Half square rectangles from those rolls would make more sense.

 

[ColinJ]

Can somebody please explain to me how this makes sense...?!

My new Android tablet has a fingerprint scanner on the power button. In landscape mode the button is on the top of the left-hand side of the tablet. At first, I was using the tablet in landscape mode so I trained the device with the index finger of my left hand. All good.

Now, however, I will mainly be using the tablet in portrait mode, held in my left hand. Like that, the power button is on the top of the tablet on the right-hand side. I now needed to train it with the index finger of my right hand.

I used my left index finger to power up the device and log in. I navigated to setup/fingerprints. It popped up a box...

"PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR PIN"

I shouldn't need to do that because I have already logged in!

If the device really needed me to log in again in case I had left the device lying around logged in and vulnerable to someone else setting up their fingerprint, I should be able to do it with the fingerprint that it already knows, right? WRONG!!!

The reason that I am 'annoyed beyond reason' is because I couldn't find my PIN in any of the places that I normally write down critical information like that. After 30 minutes of searching, I gave up and looked up what I was supposed to do next. I thought that there must be a way of forcing the device to let me log in again using the fingerprint that it already knows. Nope... Do a factory reset... WTF!!!




PS What is even more annoying is that I finally remembered the rather obvious reason why I had not written the PIN down - I had used the same PIN that I use for my phone!!

 

[MontyVeda]

Yesterday i got an Email from APC Overnight... your consignment will be delivered on the 11th. They even gave me a tracking number.
I eagerly awoke today after very little sleep as I'm on night shifts, checked the APC tracking thingy... planned delivery date; 12th February.

 

[PeteXXX]

The sound of Ring doorbells.... 🛎️

I'm sure there must be better options over the bog-standard 'out of the box' one!