Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Stop taking big suitcases through the non-suitcase appropriate barriers at train stations. Stop it. There is a suitcase appropriate barrier literally 3m away.
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Amazes me how much luggage some people need. We had 5 days in France a few weeks ago and all managed with the standard size bag allowed as Easyjet carry on. That includes my fashion obsessed younger daughter who plans her outfits weeks in advance (we even managed to get everything in the bags to come home with purchases we'd made whilst there). Meanwhile, I had to pick her and her friend up from the train when they came back from Uni for a long weekend a couple of months back and her friend had a case I could barely fit in the boot.
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My sister was a very experienced traveller, and for much of her professional life lived in quite small company-provided accommodation units. Never owned much in the way of housewares or furniture or whatever. Yet whenever she came to visit us for a few days to a week, she'd arrive with a sizeable suitcase rammed solid which weighed a metric fucktonne.
She would then spend the entire visit wearing one or two polo shirts, plus the jeans/shoes she arrived off the plane in.
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Was she a mule?
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Not AFAIK. It was not unusual for her to spend the entire visit at our place just out on a sun lounge by the pool with a book, a packet of fags and an endless cup of coffee. The suitcase would often go unopened I think, as the carry on bag contained everything needed.
But has there been an unexpected invitation to attend a State Dinner at Government House or something, I am sure she'd have had just the thing to wear.
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Jane Bond?
Just for clarity, I have not been entirely serious. 🤣
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Getting an online legal submission rejected, 9 months after being logged, shows the backlog queue, due to the scanned image pdf being not clear enough. Except my original high res version had a too big file size to get accepted... Now where tf are the original papers that got signed off by local solicitor? F knows. Still not found. OK, work with the pdf copies. How to get a scan in that middle ground where legible and not too big a file size... Several hours later, done, resubmitted, now to wait for another 9 months for the next problem notification...
Just as well has been a v wet day so far.
Next!
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i get annoyed by the people who use the big gates unnecessarily and delay me. Trivial etuff.
Also people who stand on the moving walkway things at the airport.
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And again.
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Is it worth investing in a teflon shirt?
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Stop hanging out with drunks.
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Cutting a small shrub with a hedge cutter, should of taken around 10 minutes. Cutting through the cable of said hedge cutter. Take it apart, strip the ends of the cable, refit it. Find out where the spring in the safety switch goes...around an hour.
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Just a bit of a spark, the fuse was still OK in the hedge cutter plug. I did get a strong negative "oh shit" (not a high shit, a low shit) feeling though knowing I had to take it apart and fix it.
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Got very close to that a couple of days ago doing a good deed for someone with a frozen shoulder. Thankfully it didn't pierce the inner insulation.
Must admit I much prefer my long-handled battery-powered version (ditto the mower) - I really don't think wiggly cables and vicious cutting implements belong on the same machine.
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Yeah, normally I'm pretty good like that, I make sure the cable is over my should, take my time. Yes cordless would be great but there is quite large hedge to cut too.
I quite like taking stuff apart to see how it works, but not in the evening when it's not anticipated.
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I've been really surprised at how much I can do on one charge, with both the mower and the hedge trimmer.
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Yeah I must admit the cordless mower has been much better than expected. Not a stupid price either. Nice and quiet, no oil changes, no E10 petrol (now deteriates with age), light, efficient.
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Taking things apart and fixing them is nice and therapeutic, unless it's something you HAVE to do. Then it becomes a chore and a pain in the aris. Maybe that should be in the things that intrigue me thread?
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Ditto, I like mine and we can do a lot of the garden before having to put the spare battery in. Mind you, with a battery near on the size of a house brick it should last a long time.
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I think that goes back to those things when we were young that we'd happily do anyway, but the moment we were asked to do it, we'd try to find all the other things we wanted to do first. Or maybe that was just me, haha.
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The sooner you can get AI to cut hedges for you the better.
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These days corded hedge trimmers seem to come with very short cable. So you need an extension lead which is now what you cut through and are much easier to repair.
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Yep, exactly!
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Looks like a nice bit of kit Stevo.
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Well mines bloody short now.
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Yep, normal if I buy something I like to take it apart before I've turned it on for the first time.
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Bunch o' wimps. Power up the 2 stroke Stihl petrol engines. Of which I have numerous. And yes I qualify as Green 😉
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I've changed the garden kit to EGO battery stuff, hedgetrimmers, pole saw, strimmer, chain saw. It's not cheap but well made. The smallest battery lasts 20mins or so of continuous heavy duty strimming. Well pleased with it.
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Pet peeve: bloody petrol strimmers and leaf-blowers that only need a tiny proportion of the continuous power the engine can provide, so the users continuously modulate the engine between idle and full power. Batteries would be far more appropriate for most of these jobs.
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