Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
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ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
I could comment but it would probably be referred to "The Other Place"
Chromatic
Squire
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Well, he does have a book to sell.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
The frequency of adverts on YouTube (via app on TV so no ad blocker).
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I went Premium to cut them out.
It doesn't stop the 'And now, a word about our sponsors...' type which creators embed in their videos but at least they are easy to skip.
What is really bugging me at the moment is eBay bombarding me with messages about rowing machines. I bought one on eBay a few days ago but it appears that their software doesn't look at purchases made after searches!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
Yup - groupon have been pestering me to buy hay fever tablets after I bought a year's supply
so now every week they check to see if I need more yet
err - YEAR'S supply - lasts how long????
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Excess packaging.
I ordered a spare derailleur hangar from Decathlon for the new bike and went to pick it up from the local post office (cheaper postage than home delivery) this afternoon. A small piece of metal that would easily go in a small padded envelope I thought.
Good job I always take a bag in case of stupidity from sellers
I ordered a spare derailleur hangar from Decathlon for the new bike and went to pick it up from the local post office (cheaper postage than home delivery) this afternoon. A small piece of metal that would easily go in a small padded envelope I thought.
Good job I always take a bag in case of stupidity from sellers
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
Yup - they just put things in what they have at the warehouse
and it they have run out of small bogs/boxes then they use a bigger one until someone else re-supplies them with smaller ones
I have been sent to Boot for "just a small bottle of stuff"
and come back with something 3 foot by 2 foot
containing a lot of brown paper - and a small bottle in the middle
good job I had not gone on my bike!
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
Cycling through London City to get to a place on time will always ensure that the many, many, MANY traffic lights you encounter, will be red. These red lights take up almost half the time of your journey.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
I have never cycled through London
but it applies to most towns of any size and is why a bike is faster than a car in many places
and NO - not because you can go through red lights - I hate that because it just "confirms" the opinion of the anti-cycling clique
but simply because you can slip up the side of the queues and the "cycles only" box at the front help a lot
Punkawallah
Veteran
A red light gives you the chance to look around.
Mburton1993
Über Member
- Location
- Stalybridge
When you're on hold and the music periodically stops for a message to say "your call is important to us please continue to hold". And the pause between the music and the message is just long enough to give you that little bit of false hope that a human is there.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
And then there are the systems that have two messages in different voices that operate in different times, so occasionally one finishes and then about three seconds later the other begins, so you think that's a real person.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
On some sites, like Amazon, they have a bit at the bottom that says 'people that bought this also bought....and then lists several alternative versions of the thing you've just bought!!! Nobody bought several versions of the same thing.
