Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[loudlashadjuster]

Krikkit said:

There's no excuse for a crap UI when it's got nothing else to do mind - old Windows XP machines are more than capable of whizzing flat graphics around at tremendous speed.

It's just underinvestment in a decent UI designer.

LOL they don't run on Pentiums you know. Just because it's XP doesn't mean it's like the Dell you used in 2005.

[TameRacingDriver]

The way that the web is becoming so crap and un-enjoyable to use these days.

Seems like almost every other page now bombards you with pop ups:-

- Please accept cookies
- Please accept GDPR related T&Cs
- Here, have an advert
- And another one
- Oh, you have adblock, I'm going to stick a great big thing on the page so you can't read it
- You've now unblocked me, have a million adverts so the page is unusable and you go somewhere else anyway

Every other fking page.

Lets not even get started on sponsored search results. And there's a special place in hell for those ones that hijack your phones web browser with what looks like malicious code that you can't get out of without killing the browser process

[droopsnoot]

Moonhawk said:

I hate it when you have to wait for the machine/software to finish doing what it's doing before it'll let you interact with it - just because somebody thought "wouldn't it be nice to leave this message displayed on screen for 5-10 seconds".

In some cases I agree - if I press a button on my PVR remote that won't work in this mode, it pops up a window to tell me off, but it stays on the screen just a bit too long, and there's no "cancel" or "ok" to get rid of it. On the other hand, I wish that my Windows PC wouldn't give me the screen and mouse control and give me the impression that it's finished booting when there's still so much going on that it's unresponsive. There, I'd rather have a window saying "starting up" until it's actually ready to do something.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

eBay sellers who don't bother to leave you feedback.

I wonder if eBay needs a complete overhaul on feedback, and there should be some sort of "confidence level" for buyers which gives an indication of the number of successful purchases they have made. After all, as an occasional seller, all I'm really interested in a buyer is how likely they are to pay and currently there is no way of determining that other than their feedback rating.

[nonsequitur]

eybic said:

Traffic Dawdlers - Sitting in a line of traffic which starts moving, for some reason they don't see fit to move with the traffic for a good few seconds, sometimes they even stop with about 3 car gaps in front of them rather than bunching up. This causes issues if the line of traffic extends a fair distance including other roads. There was a guy doing this yesterday and he refused to move at the same time as the traffic in front of him which resulted in us missing a phase of traffic lights (very much a 1st world problem I accept)

Give them a break! They have to update their FB page.

[dromong]

Domestic cats that kill baby birds by batting them about then just walk away once the poor
little thing is motionless and deceased.

[bristolracer]

TameRacingDriver said:

The way that the web is becoming so crap and un-enjoyable to use these days.

Seems like almost every other page now bombards you with pop ups:-

- Please accept cookies
- Please accept GDPR related T&Cs
- Here, have an advert
- And another one
- Oh, you have adblock, I'm going to stick a great big thing on the page so you can't read it
- You've now unblocked me, have a million adverts so the page is unusable and you go somewhere else anyway

Every other fking page.

Lets not even get started on sponsored search results. And there's a special place in hell for those ones that hijack your phones web browser with what looks like malicious code that you can't get out of without killing the browser process

Lets also add
Web pages where the back button will not work any more and you have to use their "back to search results" button

I am getting to the point where i would pay for an advertising free simple internet

[dromond]

bristolracer said:

TameRacingDriver said:

The way that the web is becoming so crap and un-enjoyable to use these days.

Seems like almost every other page now bombards you with pop ups:-

- Please accept cookies
- Please accept GDPR related T&Cs
- Here, have an advert
- And another one
- Oh, you have adblock, I'm going to stick a great big thing on the page so you can't read it
- You've now unblocked me, have a million adverts so the page is unusable and you go somewhere else anyway

Every other fking page.

Lets not even get started on sponsored search results. And there's a special place in hell for those ones that hijack your phones web browser with what looks like malicious code that you can't get out of without killing the browser process

Lets also add
Web pages where the back button will not work any more and you have to use their "back to search results" button

I am getting to the point where i would pay for an advertising free simple internet

And web pages that that freeze up and wont let you exit the page with the only means of escape being to switch
the computer off.

[loudlashadjuster]

dromond said:

And web pages that that freeze up and wont let you exit the page with the only means of escape being to switch
the computer off.

Yeah, you probably want to get your computer fixed. That shouldn't happen.

[TameRacingDriver]

bristolracer said:

TameRacingDriver said:

The way that the web is becoming so crap and un-enjoyable to use these days.

Seems like almost every other page now bombards you with pop ups:-

- Please accept cookies
- Please accept GDPR related T&Cs
- Here, have an advert
- And another one
- Oh, you have adblock, I'm going to stick a great big thing on the page so you can't read it
- You've now unblocked me, have a million adverts so the page is unusable and you go somewhere else anyway

Every other fking page.

Lets not even get started on sponsored search results. And there's a special place in hell for those ones that hijack your phones web browser with what looks like malicious code that you can't get out of without killing the browser process

Lets also add
Web pages where the back button will not work any more and you have to use their "back to search results" button

I am getting to the point where i would pay for an advertising free simple internet

And another thing, I’ve noticed on some pages, particularly on phones, if your finger even so much as slides over an advert while you’re scrolling, off you go somewhere else (invariably, as you say, the back button then wont work half of the time either!)

[dromond]

loudlashadjuster said:

dromond said:

And web pages that that freeze up and wont let you exit the page with the only means of escape being to switch
the computer off.

Yeah, you probably want to get your computer fixed. That shouldn't happen.

The strange thing is it only happens on one site.... Copart, no issues with any other site so
I don't think its my computer.

[OddCat]

BBC's Rip Off Britain. This week talking about bank fraud. Bloke gets a call from fraudster. Is convinced by said fraudster that he is calling from the bank. Fraudster convinces bloke to transfer £65k to a fraudulent account. Money never seen again. Does the bloke:

a) say "I was a bloody numpty but, embarrasing though it is, I want to tell this story as a warning to other people but of course it was nothing to do with the bank as I made the transfer"

b) blame the bank and say it is their fault for not looking after his money properly

Yep. b). And the BBC agreed with him all the way.....

[0a]

These taps with a flow of water on the top. I hate them. They annoy me.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

dromond said:

The strange thing is it only happens on one site.... Copart, no issues with any other site so
I don't think its my computer.

Is it browser-specific?

[Rostfritt]

TameRacingDriver said:

The way that the web is becoming so crap and un-enjoyable to use these days.

Seems like almost every other page now bombards you with pop ups:-

- Please accept cookies
- Please accept GDPR related T&Cs
- Here, have an advert
- And another one
- Oh, you have adblock, I'm going to stick a great big thing on the page so you can't read it
- You've now unblocked me, have a million adverts so the page is unusable and you go somewhere else anyway

Every other fking page.

Lets not even get started on sponsored search results. And there's a special place in hell for those ones that hijack your phones web browser with what looks like malicious code that you can't get out of without killing the browser process

I hate websites that ask if you want to subscribe about 10 seconds after the page has loaded. I have read less than a paragraph of an article someone has linked me, so I have no idea what the rest of your site is about. If you are asking me if I like the site, then at that moment it isn't very likely.

[Morningside]

TameRacingDriver said:

The way that the web is becoming so crap and un-enjoyable to use these days.

Seems like almost every other page now bombards you with pop ups:-

- Please accept cookies
- Please accept GDPR related T&Cs
- Here, have an advert
- And another one
- Oh, you have adblock, I'm going to stick a great big thing on the page so you can't read it
- You've now unblocked me, have a million adverts so the page is unusable and you go somewhere else anyway

Every other fking page.

Lets not even get started on sponsored search results. And there's a special place in hell for those ones that hijack your phones web browser with what looks like malicious code that you can't get out of without killing the browser process

I hate the you ARE going to have adverts but by opting out they are just not relevant ones. Well, actually the adverts 'tailored ' to you are of no damn use so in realty tick or don't tick because it's all crap anyway.

[DRFC1879]

Following the earlier cash machine ones, I'm far too busy and important to waste valuable seconds at a cash point when I could be using it more fruitfully playing Golf Clash on the khazi. So the following annoys me well beyond reason:

1. Enter Pin
2. Select Cash without advice slip
3. "Do you want to check your balance?" No I fking don't, just let me get my money!
4. Select amount required
5. "Would you like an advice slip with this transaction?" Are you taking the piss? Did you think I was having a laugh on step 2??
6. Finally get cash and card back then storm off in a huff.

[Gary29]

DRFC1879 said:

Following the earlier cash machine ones, I'm far too busy and important to waste valuable seconds at a cash point when I could be using it more fruitfully playing Golf Clash on the khazi. So the following annoys me well beyond reason:

1. Enter Pin
2. Select Cash without advice slip
3. "Do you want to check your balance?" No I fking don't, just let me get my money!
4. Select amount required
5. "Would you like an advice slip with this transaction?" Are you taking the piss? Did you think I was having a laugh on step 2??
6. Finally get cash and card back then storm off in a huff.

This is me, EVERY time

[Roofless Toothless]

0a said:

These taps with a flow of water on the top. I hate them. They annoy me.

My son has just had a new shower room fitted out. It is not very big and they needed a very small wash hand basin. One of these taps seemed attractive to them, but when the builder fitted it the thing shot the water straight over the basin and down the front of his trousers. He had to govern the thing back with a master tap on the pipe, but it still frightens the life out of you when you use it. The first time I encountered it I hit the wall behind me as I leapt back.

[Old Man Fred]

Gary29 said:

DRFC1879 said:

Following the earlier cash machine ones, I'm far too busy and important to waste valuable seconds at a cash point when I could be using it more fruitfully playing Golf Clash on the khazi. So the following annoys me well beyond reason:

1. Enter Pin
2. Select Cash without advice slip
3. "Do you want to check your balance?" No I fking don't, just let me get my money!
4. Select amount required
5. "Would you like an advice slip with this transaction?" Are you taking the piss? Did you think I was having a laugh on step 2??
6. Finally get cash and card back then storm off in a huff.

This is me, EVERY time

I was coming here to post this as well

Also people who check three different cards in cash machines, and then decide to take out £10 from the first card they had. Surely they can check balances on their phones which would be quicker?