Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Tashman wrote:
    People driving with a headlight out, compensating with their blinding foglights. I wouldn't mind but that light has been out since at least November! Just change the Farking thing!!!

    I have a lot of sympathy for drivers in that position. It seems that car designers are locked in a private battle of who can come up with the most convoluted and difficult way to change a light bulb. A chap at work tried several times before conceding he couldn't do this and then had to fork out £200 to get it done at a garage...mind you he does drive a Merc so, thinking about it, fark 'im!
  • davesnothere
    davesnothere Posts: 620
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    People driving with a headlight out, compensating with their blinding foglights. I wouldn't mind but that light has been out since at least November! Just change the Farking thing!!!

    I have a lot of sympathy for drivers in that position. It seems that car designers are locked in a private battle of who can come up with the most convoluted and difficult way to change a light bulb. A chap at work tried several times before conceding he couldn't do this and then had to fork out £200 to get it done at a garage...mind you he does drive a Merc so, thinking about it, fark 'im!

    I had a Subaru Outback and to change the drivers side headlamp bulbs you had to dismantle the air intake first to get to it
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    DavesNotHere wrote:
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    People driving with a headlight out, compensating with their blinding foglights. I wouldn't mind but that light has been out since at least November! Just change the Farking thing!!!

    I have a lot of sympathy for drivers in that position. It seems that car designers are locked in a private battle of who can come up with the most convoluted and difficult way to change a light bulb. A chap at work tried several times before conceding he couldn't do this and then had to fork out £200 to get it done at a garage...mind you he does drive a Merc so, thinking about it, fark 'im!

    I had a Subaru Outback and to change the drivers side headlamp bulbs you had to dismantle the air intake first to get to it
    Problem is that most people just don't care and are happy thinking they have resolved the issue
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    DavesNotHere wrote:
    11 year old daughters who decide they're going to do Veganuary (yes, it's a thing) which means i have to eat chickpea curry for dinner tonight :?

    Veganuary makes me snigger as it sounds a bit rude when you say it out loud...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    DavesNotHere wrote:
    11 year old daughters who decide they're going to do Veganuary (yes, it's a thing) which means i have to eat chickpea curry for dinner tonight :?

    Sort it out Dave!

    She's 11. YOU decide what she eats!
    _
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Son's old Fiesta required the removal of the headlamp itself in order to change any of the bulbs. It ate so many bulbs I did get quite good at doing it though. Tail-light assembly was the same, and you need the dexterity of a gynaecologist to reach inside the panel and unscrew a big plastic wing-nut without dropping it irretrievably. Wife's 02 plate Focus you can just about do the O/S headlamp bulbs with it in situ, but the N/S really requires the removal of the battery.
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    I was very careful not to drop the nut when removing the rear light from my Hyundai - but now there's a 10mm socket somewhere down in the depths of the bumper!
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    . . . wife who did Veganuary last year and stuck at it.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    "This is Angus Alive Radio!"
    - playing constantly over the PA in the sports centre attached to our school: which doesn't affect me mostly, but the staff changing room is part of it so it's a constant annoyance after arriving / before leaving work.
    It's not so much the incessant adverts for the same half-dozen local businesses as the quality of the actual music. Where on earth do they get it from? My guess is job lots of rejected demo tapes.
    Now I'm all for amateur music, I'm a highly enthusiastic and approximate guitarist myself, but when you have to listen to it incessantly...
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Indicator LEDS on bike lights.

    Firstly, they might not exactly be dazzling, but they are brighter than they need to be and I find them distracting and annoying.

    I could put up with this if they had a useful function, but, in terms of actually indicating battery state, they're useless.
    YMMV but what I get if I put my lights on full is:
    - a bit more than an hour and a half of 3 LEDs on
    - about 10 minutes of 2
    - 5 minutes of 1
    - 2 minutes of panicked flashing from the last LED standing
    - darkness :(
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    laurentian wrote:
    . . . wife who did Veganuary last year and stuck at it.

    That must be awful.
    _
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    laurentian wrote:
    . . . wife who did Veganuary last year and stuck at it.

    That must be awful.

    Word
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    laurentian wrote:
    . . . wife who did Veganuary last year and stuck at it

    Sort it out Laurentian!

    She's your wife. YOU decide what she eats!
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    bompington wrote:
    Indicator LEDS on bike lights.

    Firstly, they might not exactly be dazzling, but they are brighter than they need to be and I find them distracting and annoying.

    I could put up with this if they had a useful function, but, in terms of actually indicating battery state, they're useless.
    YMMV but what I get if I put my lights on full is:
    - a bit more than an hour and a half of 3 LEDs on
    - about 10 minutes of 2
    - 5 minutes of 1
    - 2 minutes of panicked flashing from the last LED standing
    - darkness :(

    With the Lezyne lights, where the button lights up, I can't tell if they're red or green due to colourblindness so I never know what the indicator means, (and I threw the instructions away without reading them anyway). Fortunately the XL models were (more uselfully) supplied with a spare battery in it's own little cannister, so failing mid trip hasn't been an issue.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    bompington wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    laurentian wrote:
    . . . wife who did Veganuary last year and stuck at it

    Sort it out Laurentian!

    She's your wife. YOU decide what she eats!

    Sadly, I do not. Good news is that Indian Restaurants tend to have good vegan selections and so we've had curry far more frequently than we used to.

    Trust me, finding vegan food to eat is nothing like as hard as trying to find vegan beer/wine to drink. Get the meal ordered then its 10 minutes on Google whilst she finds out whether the establishment's cellar passes vegan muster.

    It's a slippery slope
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • step83
    step83 Posts: 4,170
    DavesNotHere wrote:
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    People driving with a headlight out, compensating with their blinding foglights. I wouldn't mind but that light has been out since at least November! Just change the Farking thing!!!

    I have a lot of sympathy for drivers in that position. It seems that car designers are locked in a private battle of who can come up with the most convoluted and difficult way to change a light bulb. A chap at work tried several times before conceding he couldn't do this and then had to fork out £200 to get it done at a garage...mind you he does drive a Merc so, thinking about it, fark 'im!

    I had a Subaru Outback and to change the drivers side headlamp bulbs you had to dismantle the air intake first to get to it

    Old car, Drivers side, Unscrew cap faff with metal things change bulb, passenger side, remove fusebox cover increasing access by around 4mm, dislocate wrist then sever ping and ring finger before replacing bulb.
    Or, remove both front wheels, inner arch liners, undertray and bumper then remove headlight.

    Current car, Open bonnet, remove rubber cover, unplug connector twist bulb housing a quarter turn counter clockwise. Remove bulb. Reverse to fit new one, Unless its the foglight in which case its remove the arch liner from the side you want and the "aero lip" posh name for a short under tray and remove from a blind access location. Incidentally the foglights are the only bulbs in the entire car that you don't get bulb fault warnings for. You get them for the interior lights, but not fogs :|
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    My brother had a Renault Megane (absolute shitebox). Changing a front bulb was a wheel-off job.
    Ben

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  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    People who talk about bulbs.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    FishFish wrote:
    People who talk about bulbs.
    Reckon my snowdrops and crocuses will be out in a week or so. That will be nice.
    And I got a load of daffs buried and they wont be far behind.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    FishFish wrote:
    People who talk about bulbs.
    Reckon my snowdrops and crocuses will be out in a week or so. That will be nice.
    And I got a load of daffs buried and they wont be far behind.


    That remark is utterly disgraceful!

    Hijacking the sort of pedantry that is the substance of my existence (s) is just obscene. However you are unlikely to be offered a Chair in Botany if you think the appearance of snowdrops and crocus co-incide.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,674
    FishFish wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    FishFish wrote:
    People who talk about bulbs.
    Reckon my snowdrops and crocuses will be out in a week or so. That will be nice.
    And I got a load of daffs buried and they wont be far behind.


    That remark is utterly disgraceful!

    Hijacking the sort of pedantry that is the substance of my existence (s) is just obscene. However you are unlikely to be offered a Chair in Botany if you think the appearance of snowdrops and crocus co-incide.
    BBG has been offered a chair in Botany. Yours has been smashed and thrown in a skip.
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Adverts for the magazine products by D'Agostini.

    The latest one for Build a Delorean being a good example. 130 issues at £8.99 each :shock: That comes to £1168 to build a sh1tty model that you probably buy straight off for a tenth of the price. I don't know what winds me up so much about this, perhaps it's the realisation that someone is stupid enough to do it.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    bompington wrote:
    Indicator LEDS on bike lights.

    :(

    LED indicator lights on TVs too.

    We had one on the bedroom TV that would decide to light up, brilliant flashing blue at around 2am when the TV did it's updates. There was no choice in this (other than unplugging the TV of course), it just happened. The fix was a piece of insulting tape over the LED.

    Other than that, I'm a massive fan of the LED. It's a wonderful piece of technological development.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,674
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Adverts for the magazine products by D'Agostini.

    The latest one for Build a Delorean being a good example. 130 issues at £8.99 each :shock: That comes to £1168 to build a sh1tty model that you probably buy straight off for a tenth of the price. I don't know what winds me up so much about this, perhaps it's the realisation that someone is stupid enough to do it.
    The kids were asking if they could have the remote control R2D2. £2.99 x 100 issues! No thank you.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Capt Slog wrote:
    The fix was a piece of insulting tape over the LED.
    "Oi! Call yourself a smart TV? You can't even find a sensible time to update!"
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    You can only buy green chillies in bags of 5 at Sainsbury's. I only want one.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    You can only buy green chillies in bags of 5 at Sainsbury's. I only want one.

    Yebbut you can chuck the other 5 in the freezer, and come the time to use them just grate them while frozen. As long as you have a fine grater you get a marvellous chilli dust. (I have to admit I pinched that from Jamie Oliver, but it works surprisingly well)
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    keef66 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    You can only buy green chillies in bags of 5 at Sainsbury's. I only want one.

    Yebbut you can chuck the other 5 in the freezer, and come the time to use them just grate them while frozen. As long as you have a fine grater you get a marvellous chilli dust. (I have to admit I pinched that from Jamie Oliver, but it works surprisingly well)

    Do you sprinkle the chilli dust from height above the kitchen counter?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Adverts for the magazine products by D'Agostini.

    The latest one for Build a Delorean being a good example. 130 issues at £8.99 each :shock: That comes to £1168 to build a sh1tty model that you probably buy straight off for a tenth of the price. I don't know what winds me up so much about this, perhaps it's the realisation that someone is stupid enough to do it.

    And about 80% of the way through they stop doing the magazine (if the person buying hasn't already got fed up). Even if it was cheap who would spend 2 years building a model?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Can't stand the way my iPad and iPhone keypads select random letters either side of the one I press. I used to think it was my clumsy fingers but there have been times I'm carefully looking and another letter comes up. I'll also add bizarre auto corrections such as changing 'I wasn't in work as I was ill' to 'I wasn't in work as I was I'll' or even changing logical words into something completely made up.

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