Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

[Oliverrun]

V8mate said:

Windows 10 updates.

...

I've been trying to avoid these - over the past week or so I've had a popup asking me to check my privacy settings. No problem, I can just click 'remind me later'...

...except now I can't. Because the remind me later button's disappeared and instead there's a shirty message saying 'we've reminded you about this 5 times'. Which probably translates as 'we're going to force an update on you soon, probably when you're in the middle of something important'.

[Funky Panda]

Voldemort said:

Funky Panda said:

So many empty seat at the Wimbledon men's doubles final. Yet people seem to have to queue hours for tickets?

I'll bet not a single one was unsold though. Lots of tennis fans people bugger off after the first final.

Even worse now for the Ladies' final. Not a great look for the tournament really.

[Vaud]

Oliverrun said:

V8mate said:

Windows 10 updates.

...

I've been trying to avoid these - over the past week or so I've had a popup asking me to check my privacy settings. No problem, I can just click 'remind me later'...

...except now I can't. Because the remind me later button's disappeared and instead there's a shirty message saying 'we've reminded you about this 5 times'. Which probably translates as 'we're going to force an update on you soon, probably when you're in the middle of something important'.

Given the recent cyber attacks, is it unreasonable? After all a vulnerability may not just harm you, but also many others if your machine is hijacked.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Ex's talking to each other, go to pick my daughter up and her mum says what you been up to? Nothing I say and she says liar you were away for the day last week. How do you know I said. Oh i was charting to your other ex on the phone and she told me.

Wtf, why the he'll are you speaking to each other? And why do you even have her phone number?

Ffs

[ClockworkCupcake]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Ex's talking to each other, go to pick my daughter up and her mum says what you been up to? Nothing I say and she says liar you were away for the day last week. How do you know I said. Oh i was charting to your other ex on the phone and she told me.

Wtf, why the he'll are you speaking to each other? And why do you even have her phone number?

And why is it any of her business anyway?

[Frank7]

CC07 PEU said:

Having to go anywhere south of the river in London. It's like going into a third world country. The roads are all ste, there's no parking and the whole place is a fking building site! Loathsome!

Maybe parking spots are hard to find, because we don't like mouthy Northern kids putting South London down, and trying to park here.
Not for nothing, but I have nothing against North London, even been to the Emirates twice.
Islington, Camden, and Holloway, they're all fine by me.

[227bhp]

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[227bhp]

Voldemort said:

Funky Panda said:

So many empty seat at the Wimbledon men's doubles final. Yet people seem to have to queue hours for tickets?

I'll bet not a single one was unsold though. Lots of tennis fans people bugger off after the first final.

Maybe they turned up without their socks.

[V8mate]

Vaud said:

Oliverrun said:

V8mate said:

Windows 10 updates.

...

I've been trying to avoid these - over the past week or so I've had a popup asking me to check my privacy settings. No problem, I can just click 'remind me later'...

...except now I can't. Because the remind me later button's disappeared and instead there's a shirty message saying 'we've reminded you about this 5 times'. Which probably translates as 'we're going to force an update on you soon, probably when you're in the middle of something important'.

Given the recent cyber attacks, is it unreasonable? After all a vulnerability may not just harm you, but also many others if your machine is hijacked.

I bet you speak through your nose. That's certainly how it read.

This has nothing to do with the security; it's the poxy Creator Update crossing swords with regular updates.

25 minutes just to be able to use my PC this morning. No matter what I do, it's stuck in a loop of installing and uninstalling updates.

[Vaud]

Speak through my nose? What an odd expression...

Not at all, just have a reasonable understanding of why companies are reducing end user control over the application of updates.

Personally I steer clear of Windows, but use other MS products, I think it I should their weakest product.

[98elise]

Vaud said:

Speak through my nose? What an odd expression...

Not at all, just have a reasonable understanding of why companies are reducing end user control over the application of updates.

Personally I steer clear of Windows, but use other MS products, I think it I should their weakest product.

I was in the process of copying many GB of data between drives when windows 10 thought that would be a reasonable time to do updates. No option to delay or stop, just a warning that in a few minutes the laptop would update and be restarted.

fked many hours of work and I pretty much had to start again and hope nothing had been damaged.

[Bandit110]

Funky Panda said:

Voldemort said:

Funky Panda said:

So many empty seat at the Wimbledon men's doubles final. Yet people seem to have to queue hours for tickets?

I'll bet not a single one was unsold though. Lots of tennis fans people bugger off after the first final.

Even worse now for the Ladies' final. Not a great look for the tournament really.

With major finals in any sport I wish they'd add a clause with these free corporate tickets, if you don't register that you're at the venue an hour before it starts, the seat is lost and is sold on.

[NoIP]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Ex's talking to each other, go to pick my daughter up and her mum says what you been up to? Nothing I say and she says liar you were away for the day last week. How do you know I said. Oh i was charting to your other ex on the phone and she told me.

Wtf, why the he'll are you speaking to each other? And why do you even have her phone number?

Ffs

Tell her to fk off.

[Langweilig]

curlyks2 said:

Evanivitch said:

Toilet brushes.

"Polite reminders" in office toilets.

"Polite Reminders" that go on about toilet brushes.

You're literally asking me to hold st on a stick. Just give me a bottle of bleach.

A previous office had one of those polite reminder notices that asked people to "please leave this toilet in a state you'd like to find it". Someone had attached a post-it with "Florida would be nice" scrawled on it.

Ditto the notice - "CAUTION - Very hot water!"

Why should I caution very hot water and whom or what should I caution it against?

[dudleybloke]

Washing machines that won't let you open the door for several minutes after finishing the wash cycle.
A few seconds would do but my present machine won't let me open it for nearly 10 mins after it stopped.

[Willy Nilly]

Bandit110 said:

Funky Panda said:

Voldemort said:

Funky Panda said:

So many empty seat at the Wimbledon men's doubles final. Yet people seem to have to queue hours for tickets?

I'll bet not a single one was unsold though. Lots of tennis fans people bugger off after the first final.

Even worse now for the Ladies' final. Not a great look for the tournament really.

With major finals in any sport I wish they'd add a clause with these free corporate tickets, if you don't register that you're at the venue an hour before it starts, the seat is lost and is sold on.

I'm not a massive sports fan, but would love to go to some of these big events but not at the expense of anyone that really wanted to go, if that makes any sense. I think the corporate ticket thing will be detrimental for sport long term when the people that I would consider bread and butter sports fans, you know, the people that go to the less glamorous fixtures can't get tickets for finals because of corporate tickets. You only have to look at the Champions League ticket allocation, there will be season ticket holders that follow their teams in good times and bad, then go all over Europe but can't get tickets for the final because the two finalist clubs hardly get any of the allocation.

[matchmaker]

Just noticed this today. In the summer a shuttle bus service runs in Stirling connecting tourist attractions like the castle and Wallace Monument. Very cleverly, they've given it the service number 1314 - the date of the Battle of Bannockburn.

However, the bus doesn't actually go anywhere near the site of the battle - at which a multi million pound visitor centre was opened in 2014!

[anonymous-user]

Fao V8mate

That thing that annoyed you beyond reason on Colne bank avenue, should be fixed now. Have a look, let me know what you think. (easier to get hold of you here than buggering about with work email etc.)

I fully expect this post will annoy some

[V8mate]

OpulentBob said:

Fao V8mate

That thing that annoyed you beyond reason on Colne bank avenue, should be fixed now. Have a look, let me know what you think. (easier to get hold of you here than buggering about with work email etc.)

I fully expect this post will annoy some

Cheers, matey!

We need a new thread: 'Things which annoyed you beyond reason but which have been fixed by a fellow PHer' :-)

I'm currently in the Fatherland. Massive motorway replacement programme going on here at the moment. And I mean 'replacement', not resurfacing.

Amazing to see them go about it. Wish I could have got some pics or video of it. Would have made for an enthralling pub night discussion

[ClockworkCupcake]

V8mate said:

We need a new thread: 'Things which annoyed you beyond reason but which have been fixed by a fellow PHer'

Well at least we have now established that it is a positive thing to reply to a post on this thread then. Many is the time I've been told off for countering someone's annoyance on this thread. I feel vindicated.

(I've never denied anyone their right to be annoyed, I just feel that annoyance should stem from a position of knowledge rather than ignorance)