Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,703
    Pross said:

    Drivers who let HGVs pull out in front of them on 2 lane motorways / dual-carriageways.

    In my experience HGVs use indicators as a sort of 0-2 second advance warning of something that is going to occur. On that basis, if I anywhere near one when it decides to overtake 0.1 mph faster than the one it's been slipstreaming for an hour, I tend to be patient rather than risk death.
  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,669
    Weird one - losing pressure from my car tyre through loose valve core. Could I find my valve core tool? Could I feck. Looked through car toolbox. Looked through bike toolbox. Looked through car glovebox, cetre console, boot toolbag, spare wheel tools. Kitchen drawer of "misc stuff". Eventually after about an hour and a half it was in my biscuit tin of "misc bike bits that might come in handy one day".
    Bloomin annoying. Core tightened and seems to be holding pressure again.


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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,703
    Bike shops being closed on Sundays.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    First.Aspect said:

    Bike shops being closed on Sundays.

    Bike shops are one big source of irritation.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 19,540
    rick_chasey said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Bike shops being closed on Sundays.

    Bike shops are one big source of irritation.

    Although my very local (200m away) one is closed on Sundays (and Mondays for the winter), it is lovely in all other respects. Others not so much. Really annoyed by a prominent not-quite-so-local one that always had a week's wait for repairs. Why not just clear the backlog?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    got a cold on Tuesday. All fine, felt rough for a day and a half.

    Since then I've felt absolutely normal apart from having the snottiest, stickiest nose. Permanently blocked, however much crap I blow out.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 19,540
    rick_chasey said:

    got a cold on Tuesday. All fine, felt rough for a day and a half.

    Since then I've felt absolutely normal apart from having the snottiest, stickiest nose. Permanently blocked, however much censored I blow out.


    There are some really weird ones around at the moment.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,703
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:

    got a cold on Tuesday. All fine, felt rough for a day and a half.

    Since then I've felt absolutely normal apart from having the snottiest, stickiest nose. Permanently blocked, however much censored I blow out.


    There are some really weird ones around at the moment.
    Except the outbreak in China, which is entirely normal.
  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,669
    The discontinuation of the Double Space after a Full Stop. Give people a keyboard and they think they are bloomin' typists. So annoying. There! I've said it.


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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    photonic69 said:

    The discontinuation of the Double Space after a Full Stop. Give people a keyboard and they think they are bloomin' typists. So annoying. There! I've said it.

    Are you my ex boss?
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  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,669
    rick_chasey said:

    photonic69 said:

    The discontinuation of the Double Space after a Full Stop. Give people a keyboard and they think they are bloomin' typists. So annoying. There! I've said it.

    Are you my ex boss?

    You should be so lucky!!!

    What is even more annoying is that it appears this forum server software removes the double space automatically!! That is Doubly Annoying now!!
    I'm. Just. Going. To. Test. This. Theory. By. Increasing. The. Space. By. One. Each. Time.


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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,539
    edited November 2023
    This is-> <-20 spaces.
  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,669
    photonic69 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    photonic69 said:

    The discontinuation of the Double Space after a Full Stop. Give people a keyboard and they think they are bloomin' typists. So annoying. There! I've said it.

    Are you my ex boss?

    You should be so lucky!!!

    What is even more annoying is that it appears this forum server software removes the double space automatically!! That is Doubly Annoying now!!
    I'm. Just. Going. To. Test. This. Theory. By. Increasing. The. Space. By. One. Each. Time.

    Aaaarrgggggg!!! That's it! I'm going home!!! Bwahhhhh! Bloodie Space Removers!


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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    photonic69 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    photonic69 said:

    The discontinuation of the Double Space after a Full Stop. Give people a keyboard and they think they are bloomin' typists. So annoying. There! I've said it.

    Are you my ex boss?

    You should be so lucky!!!

    What is even more annoying is that it appears this forum server software removes the double space automatically!! That is Doubly Annoying now!!
    I'm. Just. Going. To. Test. This. Theory. By. Increasing. The. Space. By. One. Each. Time.
    I’m dyslexic and he made me proof a 15,000 word document just for double spaces. I wasn’t allowed by him to do it on a computer, he insisted I printed it out.

    Eventually the only way I could do it was drawing what the space of a double space was on a ruler and went through the doc that way.

    Took me so long.
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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,881
    I vaguely remember somebody (possibly my nan) telling me to type double spaces after a full stop. I presume that it was a hangover from the typewriter age when narrow letters had big spaces next to them and is no longer required now that letters are evenly spaced.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,539
    rick_chasey said:

    photonic69 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    photonic69 said:

    The discontinuation of the Double Space after a Full Stop. Give people a keyboard and they think they are bloomin' typists. So annoying. There! I've said it.

    Are you my ex boss?

    You should be so lucky!!!

    What is even more annoying is that it appears this forum server software removes the double space automatically!! That is Doubly Annoying now!!
    I'm. Just. Going. To. Test. This. Theory. By. Increasing. The. Space. By. One. Each. Time.
    I’m dyslexic and he made me proof a 15,000 word document just for double spaces. I wasn’t allowed by him to do it on a computer, he insisted I printed it out.

    Eventually the only way I could do it was drawing what the space of a double space was on a ruler and went through the doc that way.

    Took me so long.
    Something that could be done in seconds in the original document on a computer, he asks you to do on a print out? Hope you made him a quick ex boss.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,479
    Sitting in a Prius taxi on Saturday night, I now realise why people are always blinding me with their full beam lights. The damn thing has auto dipping lights that take forever to recognise a vehicle heading towards it, and if following another vehicle seems to ignore it half the time. I'd just assumed that people were completely ignorant (turns out they are, or are lazy).
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TheBigBean said:

    rick_chasey said:

    photonic69 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    photonic69 said:

    The discontinuation of the Double Space after a Full Stop. Give people a keyboard and they think they are bloomin' typists. So annoying. There! I've said it.

    Are you my ex boss?

    You should be so lucky!!!

    What is even more annoying is that it appears this forum server software removes the double space automatically!! That is Doubly Annoying now!!
    I'm. Just. Going. To. Test. This. Theory. By. Increasing. The. Space. By. One. Each. Time.
    I’m dyslexic and he made me proof a 15,000 word document just for double spaces. I wasn’t allowed by him to do it on a computer, he insisted I printed it out.

    Eventually the only way I could do it was drawing what the space of a double space was on a ruler and went through the doc that way.

    Took me so long.
    Something that could be done in seconds in the original document on a computer, he asks you to do on a print out? Hope you made him a quick ex boss.
    Yes I struggled with some very minor typos in my documents which they took over the top seriously (I think in an attempt to hold me down) and their “solution” was for me to do all proofing etc on paper and then transpose to the document.

    It was just punishment for him not liking me for various reasons.
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  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,669
    TheBigBean said:

    This is-> <-20 spaces.</p>


    By Jove! I think we've cracked it!! Quantum Time Travel!

    This is Earth-> < This is Mars -225 million km . I just typed in 127,500,000 million Double Spaces (assuming a double space is about 5mm) and now this Forum has removed this to just one space it's just a short hop from Earth to Mars. Bloomin brilliant!!!


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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 19,540
    edited November 2023
    Getting a quote to replace my French roof, and asking how much exterior roller shutters for the Velux windows would be: 1000€ for each new window, 1300€ for each roller shutter. I think I might go for a less elegant solution, as mooted before, given that the ease of covering the Veluxes isn't an issue, and would only have to be done a couple of times a year (just to cover the 'hail season' when I'm not there.
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  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    You guys should just use LaTeX. Except then you'll have to deal with your boss using fűckin' hacks and none of the proper way to deal with spacing.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,703
    drhaggis said:

    You guys should just use LaTeX. Except then you'll have to deal with your boss using fűckin' hacks and none of the proper way to deal with spacing.

    It would totally be more efficient to use a format hardly anyone else uses.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,162
    drhaggis said:

    You guys should just use LaTeX.

    I'm sure there's a more specialist forum for that sort of thing.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,102
    briantrumpet said:

    Getting a quote to replace my French roof, and asking how much exterior roller shutters for the Velux windows would be: 1000€ for each new window, 1300€ for each roller shutter. I think I might go for a less elegant solution, as mooted before, given that the ease of covering the Veluxes isn't an issue, and would only have to be done a couple of times a year (just to cover the 'hail season' when I'm not there.

    Are those special rosbif rates? Just checked and the shutter for the FK06 size (66x118cm) is £529 + VAT. Adding, say £300 for installation still doesn't get you to ~£1,100 unless you are going for the biggest size. There are also cheaper alternatives to Velux.
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,659
    Pross said:

    drhaggis said:

    You guys should just use LaTeX.

    I'm sure there's a more specialist forum for that sort of thing.
    Oh I dunno, this one caters to Men Who Wear Tights. Near enough?
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  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    edited November 2023
    First.Aspect said:

    drhaggis said:

    You guys should just use LaTeX. Except then you'll have to deal with your boss using fűckin' hacks and none of the proper way to deal with spacing.

    It would totally be more efficient to use a format hardly anyone else uses.
    Non sequitur. Counter example: using excel as a database is not efficient just because most people can't deal with any decent database software.

    Besides, how efficient is it to task a dyslexic to check for double spacing in 15k words? I'm sure RC's boss didn't even use "programming underscore" to highlight spaces...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    My wife's, and apparently the UK public's, appetite for food programming, especially competitive food TV, is a real trivial source of irritation.

    Is there anything blander and less interesting? It's the ubiquity of it. Perhaps it's the scheduling, but either way, ay caramba.
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  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,669
    rick_chasey said:

    My wife's, and apparently the UK public's, appetite for food programming, especially competitive food TV, is a real trivial source of irritation.

    Is there anything blander and less interesting? It's the ubiquity of it. Perhaps it's the scheduling, but either way, ay caramba.


    I concur. It is particularly irksome.


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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,881
    Not that i've seen it but the knotting/sewing version must be a competitor in the blandness stakes
    rick_chasey said:

    My wife's, and apparently the UK public's, appetite for food programming, especially competitive food TV, is a real trivial source of irritation.

    Is there anything blander and less interesting? It's the ubiquity of it. Perhaps it's the scheduling, but either way, ay caramba.

  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,881
    edited November 2023
    Not that i've seen it but the knitting/sewing version must be a competitor in the blandness stakes
    rick_chasey said:

    My wife's, and apparently the UK public's, appetite for food programming, especially competitive food TV, is a real trivial source of irritation.

    Is there anything blander and less interesting? It's the ubiquity of it. Perhaps it's the scheduling, but either way, ay caramba.

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