Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

turnikett1

This applies anywhere. Work, college, home, etc. This drives me MAD. You know when you're having a technical issue with your PC, internet or any other electronical device? And you ask someone else to help you with it? After explaining to them what the issue is and what you've tried to do to resolve it, they come over and do THE EXACT SAME THING THAT DIDNT WORK 2 SECONDS AGO.

Example. I'm at work and a few minutes ago I was having troubles with my Excel sheet. It wouldn't save for some reason, kept telling me to contact system administrator. I called a supervisor over and told him it won't let me save. So he stands there, breathing down my neck staring at the screen idly clicking "Save" over and over while the same message keeps popping up. 5 minutes in of him faffing around I half wanted to tell him "Just let me do it, I'll handle it from here". Bless him, he's a lovely chap but rage!

Or when something doesn't turn on. You press the on button and it doesn't turn on. You plug it in and out and it doesn't work You tell someone about this and what you've just done and they came over, scratch their chin and try to the press the on button. Scratch the chin some more and try again. They try plugging it in and out again, just like you did 1 minute ago, and it SURPRISE SURPRISE doesn't work.

I'm sure everyone can relate.

LizzieJones

Messing up the password to your online bank account and having to call the 1-800 number to the bank.

Crumpets

If I hear one more mention of "snapchat" I'll go on a feckin' rampage

califano

turnikett1 wrote: »

This applies anywhere. Work, college, home, etc. This drives me MAD. You know when you're having a technical issue with your PC, internet or any other electronical device? And you ask someone else to help you with it? After explaining to them what the issue is and what you've tried to do to resolve it, they come over and do THE EXACT SAME THING THAT DIDNT WORK 2 SECONDS AGO.

Example. I'm at work and a few minutes ago I was having troubles with my Excel sheet. It wouldn't save for some reason, kept telling me to contact system administrator. I called a supervisor over and told him it won't let me save. So he stands there, breathing down my neck staring at the screen idly clicking "Save" over and over while the same message keeps popping up. 5 minutes in of him faffing around I half wanted to tell him "Just let me do it, I'll handle it from here". Bless him, he's a lovely chap but rage!

Or when something doesn't turn on. You press the on button and it doesn't turn on. You plug it in and out and it doesn't work You tell someone about this and what you've just done and they came over, scratch their chin and try to the press the on button. Scratch the chin some more and try again. They try plugging it in and out again, just like you did 1 minute ago, and it SURPRISE SURPRISE doesn't work.

I'm sure everyone can relate.

Thats because most people say they do things that they dont. Or dont do it properly even if its just pressing a button as people have different convoluted ways of doing things. So you cant blame people for going through the same process of elimination.

LynnGrace

turnikett1 wrote: »

Or when something doesn't turn on. You press the on button and it doesn't turn on. You plug it in and out and it doesn't work You tell someone about this and what you've just done and they came over, scratch their chin and try to the press the on button. Scratch the chin some more and try again. They try plugging it in and out again, just like you did 1 minute ago, and it SURPRISE SURPRISE doesn't work.

I'm sure everyone can relate.

Chin scratching is important in these situations though.
My trivial annoyance for today, (so far), a guy called to check broadband issues I had reported. Changed a wire in the meter outside the door, and threw the bits he removed on the drive, for flip sake. Why not ask me to put them in the bin, or else take them with him.

eisenberg1

mauzo! wrote: »

An upward inflection at the end of sentences.

Frances Fitzgerald on the news drove me mad.

The Irish *people*
Need to have *confidence*
We need a new *culture*.

Are you asking me or f*cking telling me??

Australians do that, "Hi, my name is Brandon?"
"What, are you not sure what your name is?":D

LynnGrace wrote: »

People who ring the door bell, then immediately start banging on the door. Flip off.

Try shouting "You will never take me alive, coppers" cos thats who usually do that............

LynnGrace

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Try shouting "You will never take me alive, coppers" cos thats who usually do that............

Okay, I will do that next time .

LynnGrace

LynnGrace wrote: »

I travel for work also, from time to time, and post on Tripadvisor. It does put me off choosing a particular hotel, if I see a defensive response, from an owner, to a perfectly polite comment.

Yes
"yeah well the other customers didn't have a problem with it and it's not true" kind of stuff

gramar

The widespread use of the term 'faceplam' or 'facepalm moment'. What did people say before?

LynnGrace

Every discussion I've seen on this forum and elsewhere, about saving water, when the charges kick in, someone posts 'If it's yellow ...etc', and gets thanked for it.

Boom_Bap

I hate when pocket fluff gets stuck in the top of my lighter.

whirlpool

gramar wrote: »

The widespread use of the term 'faceplam' or 'facepalm moment'. What did people say before?

Haha "faceplam."

Frigga_92

The attitude in this country towards animals but pets in particular.

I contacted Irish Rail recently to clarify their policy on travelling with pets. Their website is unclear.
It states "Small dogs can be carried free of charge in the passenger compartment of services provided they travel on the owners lap." That's grand.
"Dogs and/or pets in containers found to be occupying a seat will be liable to a penalty charge." Bit confusing as I couldn't figure out if it meant that even if you pay for a seat for your pet you would still be fined.
So I e-mailed Irish Rail and their response is that you can travel with a crate on your lap (fairly impossible on most trains as the seats are so tight) and even if you pay for the seat beside yours to keep the crate on any passenger can ask for it to be moved for them to sit down, even though you have paid for that seat
They state that at any time they can ask for the pet to be removed from the train and you can be refused travel for any reason.
Sure that's great then.

turnikett1

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

The attitude in this country towards animals but pets in particular.

I contacted Irish Rail recently to clarify their policy on travelling with pets. Their website is unclear.
It states "Small dogs can be carried free of charge in the passenger compartment of services provided they travel on the owners lap." That's grand.
"Dogs and/or pets in containers found to be occupying a seat will be liable to a penalty charge." Bit confusing as I couldn't figure out if it meant that even if you pay for a seat for your pet you would still be fined.
So I e-mailed Irish Rail and their response is that you can travel with a crate on your lap (fairly impossible on most trains as the seats are so tight) and even if you pay for the seat beside yours to keep the crate on any passenger can ask for it to be moved for them to sit down, even though you have paid for that seat
They state that at any time they can ask for the pet to be removed from the train and you can be refused travel for any reason.
Sure that's great then.

Irish public services at it's finest. Are you paying €70 for a one way too?

Frigga_92

turnikett1 wrote: »

Irish public services at it's finest. Are you paying €70 for a one way too?

Not €70 but now that you mention it, the last time I got the train from Dublin to Waterford, one way, I paid €30 for the ticket :eek: and I had to get off the train in Kilkenny so that they could leave 3 carriages behind in Kilkenny and everyone had to squish into the next carriage up. And the train was late.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

That woman off of the UPC ad.

"We've been fibre-powered. Have you??". She sounds so haughty.

She might as well be saying "Of course you don't you thick smelly bogger".

SpaceCowb0y

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

That woman off of the UPC ad.

"We've been fibre-powered. Have you??". She sounds so haughty.

She might as well be saying "Of course you don't you thick smelly bogger".

I hate thick smelly boggers! :pac::p

Buggeroo

When you tell some to be quiet or "shhh" and they say "why" or "what".

What if it was a life or death situation!

eisenberg1

Buggeroo wrote: »

When you tell some to be quiet or "shhh" and they say "why" or "what".

What if it was a life or death situation!

Well, if one is hiding from a cheetah, or trying to evade a tribe of headhunters, that would be ok, but in all other situations, its a no no.

jimgoose

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

That woman off of the UPC ad.

"We've been fibre-powered. Have you??". She sounds so haughty.

She might as well be saying "Of course you don't you thick smelly bogger".

Oh yes, Martha. She'd make an excellent Fionnuala O'Carroll-Kelly.

califano

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

If my sister has an early start in work, before the mail comes to the house.

Every time I get a message after the mail man goes "any mail for me".

I know its just a yes or no reply in response. But seriously what the fcuk, can she not wait to find out until she's home from work like every one else.

Its even worse after she's ordered something of the internet.

"Did it come yet"

When I was working and in college myself, I wasn't texting and ringing home about the fcuking mail.

She doesnt get it, that I completely ignore her message. Come home after work and then find out about the post.

She must be still waiting on the 1990 Weetabix Barbie doll that never came.

For something no one has any control over, it drives me up the wall.

"any mail for me"....fcuk off and ask the post man

Keep her away from the postman tbh and just hope that Barbie doll shaped object arrives soon;).

califano

Photographers. They get lauded so much, but its the camera that does the good work is it not. They just need to press the stupid button.

Gatame

Loose bed sheets

eisenberg1

Does anyone know where the Dundrum TINE Centre is ? that bucken ad drives me nuts.

Frigga_92

Gatame wrote: »

Loose bed sheets

Tight bed sheets :eek:

eisenberg1

Gatame wrote: »

Loose bed sheets

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

Tight bed sheets :eek:

Are you guys in the KKK?:D

Merkin

Gatame wrote: »

Loose bed sheets

Bed sheets full stop. Fine having a tightly fitting sheet to cover the mattress but then I just want a duvet on top of me. I DO NOT want sheets which I will invariably muddle up into an annoying tangled ball given my flailing around in bed.

bnt

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

People that just launch dishes into the dishwasher - there is a system. Always results in it having to be rearranged before you can fit everything in.

There are seven posts on dishwashers already - specifically, people's inability to pack them correctly - and here's another. We have one at home, which is generally OK, but we also have one at work, and I often end up rearrranging the dishes myself. I regard the problem as (partly) a failure to visualise what's going on inside there:

In most dishwashers around today, there are two spinning spray arms that spray the water over all the dishes: one at the bottom, one in the middle just below the upper tray. Fairly obvious, this one: they need to spin. If you obstruct them in any way, they won't spin, and you won't get a good wash.

Cutlery etc. should be packed in the holder with the "business end" pointing up. That way, those ends are exposed to more spray and there's better drainage through the bottom of the holder.

In general, items need to loaded so that they'll (a) get sprayed and (b) drain correctly. Bowls & cups should face down, plates need to have space between them. Where two things are in contact, that's a spot where water might not reach, so avoid having two things touching eachother if at all possible.

Sorry - annoying things bring out the pedant in me ...

Elmo

bnt wrote: »

Cutlery etc. should be packed in the holder with the "business end" pointing up. That way, those ends are exposed to more spray and there's better drainage through the bottom of the holder.

Business end??? Cutlery handles should be place in the cutlery holder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGzya-DRJ9w from 11mins

Ted_YNWA

turnikett1 wrote: »

This applies anywhere. Work, college, home, etc. This drives me MAD. You know when you're having a technical issue with your PC, internet or any other electronical device? And you ask someone else to help you with it? After explaining to them what the issue is and what you've tried to do to resolve it, they come over and do THE EXACT SAME THING THAT DIDNT WORK 2 SECONDS AGO.

Example. I'm at work and a few minutes ago I was having troubles with my Excel sheet. It wouldn't save for some reason, kept telling me to contact system administrator. I called a supervisor over and told him it won't let me save. So he stands there, breathing down my neck staring at the screen idly clicking "Save" over and over while the same message keeps popping up. 5 minutes in of him faffing around I half wanted to tell him "Just let me do it, I'll handle it from here". Bless him, he's a lovely chap but rage!

Or when something doesn't turn on. You press the on button and it doesn't turn on. You plug it in and out and it doesn't work You tell someone about this and what you've just done and they came over, scratch their chin and try to the press the on button. Scratch the chin some more and try again. They try plugging it in and out again, just like you did 1 minute ago, and it SURPRISE SURPRISE doesn't work.

I'm sure everyone can relate.

Usually the exact opposite for me.

Something doesn't work & get error messages galore. Call someone over to help & it works first time for them.