Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
Discussion
droopsnoot said:
Amazon and their rubbish search results. Bought a cheapo dashcam over the weekend to play with, need to buy a memory card, so I searched for "class 10 32Gb SD card", and sorted the results by "price - low to high". The first five items are:
Kingston Class 4 8Gb microSD card - £3.78
Kingston microSD reader - £2.53
Kingston 16Gb Class 10 microSD card (the first item that has any of the search criteria) - £3.81
MicroSD to SD convertor - £2.95
Lupo USB SD/MicroSD card reader - £2.99
Agree completely. Few years back I used several car search websites, including one with "e".Kingston Class 4 8Gb microSD card - £3.78
Kingston microSD reader - £2.53
Kingston 16Gb Class 10 microSD card (the first item that has any of the search criteria) - £3.81
MicroSD to SD convertor - £2.95
Lupo USB SD/MicroSD card reader - £2.99
I'd type in "Mark 3 Golf VR6". The first dozen or more results would say "Not GTI/VR6", even that wasn't shown until the advert link was clicked.
Waste of time and very *censored* annoying.
Cotty said:
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kers who don’t add relevant information in the subject line of emails. Just received one and the subject line was “lost bangle”, no mention of the insured or the policy number. What am I a fking mind reader.
It was just from Sandra in accounts - she dropped it somewhere in the office.kers who don’t add relevant information in the subject line of emails. Just received one and the subject line was “lost bangle”, no mention of the insured or the policy number. What am I a fking mind reader.Cotty said:
wkers who don’t add relevant information in the subject line of emails. Just received one and the subject line was “lost bangle”, no mention of the insured or the policy number. What am I a fking mind reader.
Even worse are the cretins who don't include an email signature.kers who don’t add relevant information in the subject line of emails. Just received one and the subject line was “lost bangle”, no mention of the insured or the policy number. What am I a fking mind reader.
I hope not I paid out four million dollars last week 
People who don't listen to what they're being told. And people who, despite it being a written instruction and a life/death safety issue, refuse to send a replacement part because a particular LED is not flashing at a particular frequency.
Explanation?
I'm registered disabled (deaf). Normal smoke alarms fail to wake me up. I have a 'Fire Angel' monitor plugged into the mains by my bed. It is connected, wirelessly, to my smoke and CO alarms. It also has a bright flashing strobe light and a vibrating pad that goes under my pillow.
All good so far. Except for several days it was flashing a fault led on the bedside unit. After stupidly buying another smoke alarm (because I presumed it was a fault with one of them) I did some more digging and it turns out that the fault was down to the back-up battery in the bedside master unit.
The battery states on it that it has a five-year in-service life. It also states on this particular battery that it was to be installed/connected no later than November 2014. Which means that it has reached it's stated life limit. I described the fault I'd been experiencing too, which matched a "low battery condition" as described in the manual.
Sadly, though, because I have a wired land-line phone (I know, i know, get with the 21st century Grandad, etc, etc...) I had to unplug the bedside unit and take it downstairs. This was because I'd open the battery door on tha back of the unit (marked 9v DC) thinking I'd just nip out and buy a 9v battery. But no. It's a NiMH battery pack, wrapped in green plastic and connected to the unit by a tiny white electrical connector. No way an off-the-shelf battery from a local shop will fit it. But me poking around and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery seems to have sparked in into renewed life. While on the phone to "technical support" (more accurately the script readers' guild) the fault would not replicate itself, so the Doris on the other end refused to send a new battery out. Despite me repeatedly telling her that THEY had stated that it was "life expired" on the printed green wrapper with THEIR telephone number on, telling me to phone them to get a replacement.
She was driving me so far up the wall that my wife had to intervene and continue the call. Now I may (or may not) get a call from my local fire brigade (I'm not going to hold my breath though) to come to have a look at the fault. No doubt, though, within a short while the annoying amber led flashing every five seconds through the night will soon return (accompanied by a loud "chirp" from every connected alarm every four hours), due to the fact that the battery is running low on amps, and I'll have to go through this "customer service" hoop-jumping circus all over again. And if, this time, the person on the other end just repeats, with annoying frequency, that "it's only a back-up battery, though" I'm gonna be tempted to drive up to Coventry and bash their head against a desk to drive home the point that this "it's only a back-up battery, though" may well be vital one dark night in waking me up if I have a house fire or a CO leak during a bloody power cut.
It's not even as if I was after a free battery - I fully expected to have to pay for one to keep my system maintained and working correctly.
Plus, any suggestions as to what I can do with a brand new, never activated, but taken from it's packaging wireless connected smoke alarm? I tried the obvious suggestion that some wag will no doubt come up with, but it wouldn't fit, and made it very uncomfortable to sit down...
Explanation?
I'm registered disabled (deaf). Normal smoke alarms fail to wake me up. I have a 'Fire Angel' monitor plugged into the mains by my bed. It is connected, wirelessly, to my smoke and CO alarms. It also has a bright flashing strobe light and a vibrating pad that goes under my pillow.
All good so far. Except for several days it was flashing a fault led on the bedside unit. After stupidly buying another smoke alarm (because I presumed it was a fault with one of them) I did some more digging and it turns out that the fault was down to the back-up battery in the bedside master unit.
The battery states on it that it has a five-year in-service life. It also states on this particular battery that it was to be installed/connected no later than November 2014. Which means that it has reached it's stated life limit. I described the fault I'd been experiencing too, which matched a "low battery condition" as described in the manual.
Sadly, though, because I have a wired land-line phone (I know, i know, get with the 21st century Grandad, etc, etc...) I had to unplug the bedside unit and take it downstairs. This was because I'd open the battery door on tha back of the unit (marked 9v DC) thinking I'd just nip out and buy a 9v battery. But no. It's a NiMH battery pack, wrapped in green plastic and connected to the unit by a tiny white electrical connector. No way an off-the-shelf battery from a local shop will fit it. But me poking around and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery seems to have sparked in into renewed life. While on the phone to "technical support" (more accurately the script readers' guild) the fault would not replicate itself, so the Doris on the other end refused to send a new battery out. Despite me repeatedly telling her that THEY had stated that it was "life expired" on the printed green wrapper with THEIR telephone number on, telling me to phone them to get a replacement.
She was driving me so far up the wall that my wife had to intervene and continue the call. Now I may (or may not) get a call from my local fire brigade (I'm not going to hold my breath though) to come to have a look at the fault. No doubt, though, within a short while the annoying amber led flashing every five seconds through the night will soon return (accompanied by a loud "chirp" from every connected alarm every four hours), due to the fact that the battery is running low on amps, and I'll have to go through this "customer service" hoop-jumping circus all over again. And if, this time, the person on the other end just repeats, with annoying frequency, that "it's only a back-up battery, though" I'm gonna be tempted to drive up to Coventry and bash their head against a desk to drive home the point that this "it's only a back-up battery, though" may well be vital one dark night in waking me up if I have a house fire or a CO leak during a bloody power cut.
It's not even as if I was after a free battery - I fully expected to have to pay for one to keep my system maintained and working correctly.
Plus, any suggestions as to what I can do with a brand new, never activated, but taken from it's packaging wireless connected smoke alarm? I tried the obvious suggestion that some wag will no doubt come up with, but it wouldn't fit, and made it very uncomfortable to sit down...
yellowjack said:
People who don't listen to what they're being told. And people who, despite it being a written instruction and a life/death safety issue, refuse to send a replacement part because a particular LED is not flashing at a particular frequency.
Explanation?
I'm registered disabled (deaf). Normal smoke alarms fail to wake me up. I have a 'Fire Angel' monitor plugged into the mains by my bed. It is connected, wirelessly, to my smoke and CO alarms. It also has a bright flashing strobe light and a vibrating pad that goes under my pillow.
All good so far. Except for several days it was flashing a fault led on the bedside unit. After stupidly buying another smoke alarm (because I presumed it was a fault with one of them) I did some more digging and it turns out that the fault was down to the back-up battery in the bedside master unit.
The battery states on it that it has a five-year in-service life. It also states on this particular battery that it was to be installed/connected no later than November 2014. Which means that it has reached it's stated life limit. I described the fault I'd been experiencing too, which matched a "low battery condition" as described in the manual.
Sadly, though, because I have a wired land-line phone (I know, i know, get with the 21st century Grandad, etc, etc...) I had to unplug the bedside unit and take it downstairs. This was because I'd open the battery door on tha back of the unit (marked 9v DC) thinking I'd just nip out and buy a 9v battery. But no. It's a NiMH battery pack, wrapped in green plastic and connected to the unit by a tiny white electrical connector. No way an off-the-shelf battery from a local shop will fit it. But me poking around and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery seems to have sparked in into renewed life. While on the phone to "technical support" (more accurately the script readers' guild) the fault would not replicate itself, so the Doris on the other end refused to send a new battery out. Despite me repeatedly telling her that THEY had stated that it was "life expired" on the printed green wrapper with THEIR telephone number on, telling me to phone them to get a replacement.
She was driving me so far up the wall that my wife had to intervene and continue the call. Now I may (or may not) get a call from my local fire brigade (I'm not going to hold my breath though) to come to have a look at the fault. No doubt, though, within a short while the annoying amber led flashing every five seconds through the night will soon return (accompanied by a loud "chirp" from every connected alarm every four hours), due to the fact that the battery is running low on amps, and I'll have to go through this "customer service" hoop-jumping circus all over again. And if, this time, the person on the other end just repeats, with annoying frequency, that "it's only a back-up battery, though" I'm gonna be tempted to drive up to Coventry and bash their head against a desk to drive home the point that this "it's only a back-up battery, though" may well be vital one dark night in waking me up if I have a house fire or a CO leak during a bloody power cut.
It's not even as if I was after a free battery - I fully expected to have to pay for one to keep my system maintained and working correctly.
Plus, any suggestions as to what I can do with a brand new, never activated, but taken from it's packaging wireless connected smoke alarm? I tried the obvious suggestion that some wag will no doubt come up with, but it wouldn't fit, and made it very uncomfortable to sit down...
tl;dr Flat batteryExplanation?
I'm registered disabled (deaf). Normal smoke alarms fail to wake me up. I have a 'Fire Angel' monitor plugged into the mains by my bed. It is connected, wirelessly, to my smoke and CO alarms. It also has a bright flashing strobe light and a vibrating pad that goes under my pillow.
All good so far. Except for several days it was flashing a fault led on the bedside unit. After stupidly buying another smoke alarm (because I presumed it was a fault with one of them) I did some more digging and it turns out that the fault was down to the back-up battery in the bedside master unit.
The battery states on it that it has a five-year in-service life. It also states on this particular battery that it was to be installed/connected no later than November 2014. Which means that it has reached it's stated life limit. I described the fault I'd been experiencing too, which matched a "low battery condition" as described in the manual.
Sadly, though, because I have a wired land-line phone (I know, i know, get with the 21st century Grandad, etc, etc...) I had to unplug the bedside unit and take it downstairs. This was because I'd open the battery door on tha back of the unit (marked 9v DC) thinking I'd just nip out and buy a 9v battery. But no. It's a NiMH battery pack, wrapped in green plastic and connected to the unit by a tiny white electrical connector. No way an off-the-shelf battery from a local shop will fit it. But me poking around and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery seems to have sparked in into renewed life. While on the phone to "technical support" (more accurately the script readers' guild) the fault would not replicate itself, so the Doris on the other end refused to send a new battery out. Despite me repeatedly telling her that THEY had stated that it was "life expired" on the printed green wrapper with THEIR telephone number on, telling me to phone them to get a replacement.
She was driving me so far up the wall that my wife had to intervene and continue the call. Now I may (or may not) get a call from my local fire brigade (I'm not going to hold my breath though) to come to have a look at the fault. No doubt, though, within a short while the annoying amber led flashing every five seconds through the night will soon return (accompanied by a loud "chirp" from every connected alarm every four hours), due to the fact that the battery is running low on amps, and I'll have to go through this "customer service" hoop-jumping circus all over again. And if, this time, the person on the other end just repeats, with annoying frequency, that "it's only a back-up battery, though" I'm gonna be tempted to drive up to Coventry and bash their head against a desk to drive home the point that this "it's only a back-up battery, though" may well be vital one dark night in waking me up if I have a house fire or a CO leak during a bloody power cut.
It's not even as if I was after a free battery - I fully expected to have to pay for one to keep my system maintained and working correctly.
Plus, any suggestions as to what I can do with a brand new, never activated, but taken from it's packaging wireless connected smoke alarm? I tried the obvious suggestion that some wag will no doubt come up with, but it wouldn't fit, and made it very uncomfortable to sit down...
V8mate said:
tl;dr Flat battery
Pretty much, but the annoying part being that I can't just buy one "off-the-shelf" because it's got their company's part number on it, along with their phone number, which means I can only get one from them, but they won't send one "because customer service tech support script".If only human beings could develop the ability to reason through a problem for themselves, without a script...?
yellowjack said:
V8mate said:
tl;dr Flat battery
Pretty much, but the annoying part being that I can't just buy one "off-the-shelf" because it's got their company's part number on it, along with their phone number, which means I can only get one from them, but they won't send one "because customer service tech support script".If only human beings could develop the ability to reason through a problem for themselves, without a script...?
yellowjack said:
V8mate said:
tl;dr Flat battery
Pretty much, but the annoying part being that I can't just buy one "off-the-shelf" because it's got their company's part number on it, along with their phone number, which means I can only get one from them, but they won't send one "because customer service tech support script".If only human beings could develop the ability to reason through a problem for themselves, without a script...?
Many of these battery packs find their way into RC models.(the adult ones not the toy things)
They are also used in things like satellite meters and other professional meters and electronic kit
Failing that there companies about that will build any battery combination you require.
http://bblbatteries.co.uk/site/products/custom-bat...
The connector will be a standard electronic lead albeit not something you will pick up in an electrical shop. RS components or Farnell CPC may be able to help.
I look over my shoulder regularly. It seems to work. 
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