Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

briantrumpet

Sorry, bad example, as I'm now mixing in 1's, though thankfully sans fonts do generally have the hook.

A better example would be the word "Ill".

TheBigBean

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

TheBigBean said:

Bins only get collected every two weeks in the sticks?

My collection is due to move to 3 weekly (in addition to the bin reducing from 240l to 120l). Food waste and recycling is still weekly though and garden waste fortnightly through summer months. I’d rather bins get smaller again than going to three weekly collections but might explain why Wales is doing so well on recycling.

Sans fonts annoy me, especially when you mix up capital I's and lower-case l's.

See what I mean?

No?

IlIllI.

Tell me which ones are lower-case L's and which are capital l's.

When has this been an issue for you? My handwriting is the same.

It's not a major issue, just a minor annoyance... for instance, if I email a question asking "How many litres did you buy, and they write back "20l", there is the risk of confusion.

BTW, in my question to Pross, they were both L's, one upper and one lower case.

You're worried what 20i means or you think it is 201? I find hard to read as anything other than 20L

pangolin

briantrumpet said:

Sorry, bad example, as I'm now mixing in 1's, though thankfully sans fonts do generally have the hook.

A better example would be the word "Ill".

Surely context sorts that out

veronese68

TheBigBean said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

TheBigBean said:

Bins only get collected every two weeks in the sticks?

My collection is due to move to 3 weekly (in addition to the bin reducing from 240l to 120l). Food waste and recycling is still weekly though and garden waste fortnightly through summer months. I’d rather bins get smaller again than going to three weekly collections but might explain why Wales is doing so well on recycling.

Sans fonts annoy me, especially when you mix up capital I's and lower-case l's.

See what I mean?

No?

IlIllI.

Tell me which ones are lower-case L's and which are capital l's.

When has this been an issue for you? My handwriting is the same.

This does fit the thread title

drhaggis

pblakeney said:

I'm probably incorrect but I always use L for litres.

An aclaratory note from the SI handbook:


I find it very surprising both lowercase l and uppercase L are accepted.

pblakeney

drhaggis said:

pblakeney said:

I'm probably incorrect but I always use L for litres.

An aclaratory note from the SI handbook:


I find it very surprising both lowercase l and uppercase L are accepted.

Probably due to some confusion when using the lower case version.
Upper case is unambiguous, as per the explanation.

drhaggis

pblakeney said:

drhaggis said:

pblakeney said:

I'm probably incorrect but I always use L for litres.

An aclaratory note from the SI handbook:


I find it very surprising both lowercase l and uppercase L are accepted.

Probably due to some confusion when using the lower case version.
Upper case is unambiguous, as per the explanation.

Yes, but normally this would have come with a clarification that lowercase l is no longer recommended.

Pross

The weather for Sunday when I have my first half marathon since before lockdown now appears set to stay in the high 20s with humidity at around 90% when it was originally supposed to be cooling down for the weekend. I'm really hoping to run a PB but struggle badly trying to run fast in the heat.

pinno

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/spellcheck/english?q=aclaratory

rick_chasey

Well first day at school for the little one.

She was very excited.

Behind the scenes there were some foreseen problems which we repeatedly tried to share and head off with the school back in May and June. They basically told us to shut up.

Foreseen problems happened exactly as predicted today.

What a f*cking sh!tshow the whole thing is.


Also, not so trivial; parents who can't look after their kids so they start sh!tting all over the floor when they go to school.

Absofuckingdisgrace. Sort yourselves out you cretins and look after your own kids properly.

rjsterry

rick_chasey said:

Well first day at school for the little one.

She was very excited.

Behind the scenes there were some foreseen problems which we repeatedly tried to share and head off with the school back in May and June. They basically told us to shut up.

Foreseen problems happened exactly as predicted today.

What a f*cking sh!tshow the whole thing is.


Also, not so trivial; parents who can't look after their kids so they start sh!tting all over the floor when they go to school.

Absofuckingdisgrace. Sort yourselves out you cretins and look after your own kids properly.

You're going to give yourself an aneurysm if you don't let some of this stuff slide. It's reception: there are always accidents.

rick_chasey

It’s really disappointing to see your kid go in so excited and to come home so upset because they’ve put her away from all her friends and with all the kids who she really dislikes.

All she wanted to do was show her friends all the books she spotted in the classroom.

And no, kids curling out sh!ts on the floor is a sign they are not looked well looked after.

rjsterry

rick_chasey said:

It’s really disappointing to see your kid go in so excited and to come home so upset because they’ve put her away from all her friends and with all the kids who she really dislikes.

All she wanted to do was show her friends all the books she spotted in the classroom.

And no, kids curling out sh!ts on the floor is a sign they are not looked well looked after.

It's not great but don't jump to conclusions. I have good friends that are having awful trouble with the behaviour of one of their children but not the other; no obvious reasons.
The staff will or at least should be experienced enough to deal with this. The other thing is that there's only so much time they can give to each child and if one is being that disruptive, that will inevitably mean everyone else's experience is not quite as good. But don't write it off after day 1.

Pross

rick_chasey said:

It’s really disappointing to see your kid go in so excited and to come home so upset because they’ve put her away from all her friends and with all the kids who she really dislikes.

All she wanted to do was show her friends all the books she spotted in the classroom.

And no, kids curling out sh!ts on the floor is a sign they are not looked well looked after.

Have you ever considered they were too nervous to ask to go to the toilet?

I remember when I was 9 or 10 I p1ssed on the floor in a karate class because I was too scared to ask to leave the room full of strangers. It definitely had nothing to do with feckless parents not toilet training me. Also, maybe the kids she has now been sat next to will go on to be new friends as happened with my daughter when she started school and with me when I went to secondary school and we had to mix with kids from various schools covering half a county.

Pross

Anyway, a more trivial annoyance. Getting some of my running socks out of the wash, I have several pairs that are all the same but I could only find the left sock. I then realised that these particular socks aren't shaped and the 'L' referred to them being size large!

TheBigBean

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

briantrumpet

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Are school name tags still a thing? ... I seem to remember my mum sewing them into just about everything I wore to school... and no, I didn't have my gloves tied together with a long piece of wool, because I was all grown up at 5½.

rjsterry

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Are school name tags still a thing? ... I seem to remember my mum sewing them into just about everything I wore to school... and no, I didn't have my gloves tied together with a long piece of wool, because I was all grown up at 5½.

Yes.

rjsterry

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Mandatory branded PE kit bags that are too small for the mandatory branded PE kit.

TheBigBean

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Are school name tags still a thing? ... I seem to remember my mum sewing them into just about everything I wore to school... and no, I didn't have my gloves tied together with a long piece of wool, because I was all grown up at 5½.

You can just use a pen and write on it. Takes about 10 seconds. Sadly, the two seconds it takes to read the name is too much for some people.

First.Aspect

rjsterry said:

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Mandatory branded PE kit bags that are too small for the mandatory branded PE kit.

I thought schools were supposed not to be enforcing pointless shit like this any more?

As an aside, does anyone else remember the fad in the 80s of bigger and bigger kit bags. In my school tennis bags became the rage and Head bags about 5 feet long were the norm.

briantrumpet

TheBigBean said:

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Are school name tags still a thing? ... I seem to remember my mum sewing them into just about everything I wore to school... and no, I didn't have my gloves tied together with a long piece of wool, because I was all grown up at 5½.

You can just use a pen and write on it. Takes about 10 seconds. Sadly, the two seconds it takes to read the name is too much for some people.

I would find it very hard not to make some snarky remark about the school's policy on learning to read, in such circumstances. If I find anything lying around in school, the first thing I do is to try to see who it belongs to because, because, I mean, just why wouldn't you?

TheBigBean

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Are school name tags still a thing? ... I seem to remember my mum sewing them into just about everything I wore to school... and no, I didn't have my gloves tied together with a long piece of wool, because I was all grown up at 5½.

You can just use a pen and write on it. Takes about 10 seconds. Sadly, the two seconds it takes to read the name is too much for some people.

I would find it very hard not to make some snarky remark about the school's policy on learning to read, in such circumstances. If I find anything lying around in school, the first thing I do is to try to see who it belongs to because, because, I mean, just why wouldn't you?

I asked. The response I got was "most things don't have names on, so there is no point in looking". But I still find it hard to accept. I spent two days looking for a missing hat in three different places only to find it on top of the lost property pile (days later) with the full name clearly written on it. Two seconds from a member of staff versus a lost hour at least from me. That seems to be the balance with most things though related to schools.

Tashman

School blazers. Such a pointless item

tailwindhome

Tashman said:

School blazers. Such a pointless item

Agreed.
It's crazy that we send children to school, dressed as if they were going to Captain's Day at the golf club

rick_chasey

Had the debate before; school uniform is just trivially annoying and pointless.

So grim.

Tashman

rick_chasey said:

Had the debate before; school uniform is just trivially annoying and pointless.

So grim.

A basic uniform I don't mind as it sets an expectation. Having to pay out for a crested jacket is pointless though

briantrumpet

rick_chasey said:

Had the debate before; school uniform is just trivially annoying and pointless.

So grim.

Genuinely couldn't tell in a local primary school with a basic but smart uniform of polo shirt and grey trousers/shorts who were the children of medics and who were the children of families in one of the most deprived catchment areas in the whole of the SW. I'm not a fan of blazers and all that rigmarole. Enjoyed the protest of the lads at the local school who wore skirts when the school banned shorts in the summer. They won.

briantrumpet

TheBigBean said:

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

Rick - I think you might explode with anger if you do too much with schools. They annoy me a lot.

My latest pet hate is the inability for school staff to look at names on lost items when they can instead just throw it all in a big pile. Not sure my commentary was particularly appreciated "Have you thought about just giving this to Harry, because it says Harry on it quite clearly?"

Are school name tags still a thing? ... I seem to remember my mum sewing them into just about everything I wore to school... and no, I didn't have my gloves tied together with a long piece of wool, because I was all grown up at 5½.

You can just use a pen and write on it. Takes about 10 seconds. Sadly, the two seconds it takes to read the name is too much for some people.

I would find it very hard not to make some snarky remark about the school's policy on learning to read, in such circumstances. If I find anything lying around in school, the first thing I do is to try to see who it belongs to because, because, I mean, just why wouldn't you?

I asked. The response I got was "most things don't have names on, so there is no point in looking". But I still find it hard to accept. I spent two days looking for a missing hat in three different places only to find it on top of the lost property pile (days later) with the full name clearly written on it. Two seconds from a member of staff versus a lost hour at least from me. That seems to be the balance with most things though related to schools.

Quite. Takes all of two seconds to look. Kinda basic, one would have thought.

orraloon

Gambling adverts. They're everywhere. Had to tolerate ads while using ITVX to get a view of ToB. So many. And they're on podcasts various, where at least can FF. Occasionally have on a local radio channel now part of Greatest Hits Radio, and yes gambling and of course financial 'help' ads. Just how stupid are people? Yeah, that thick. Prob tug forelocks and vote #toryscum to complete the set.

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