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

[captain_cynic]

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.

Or better yet... Start using Chrome or Firefox with Ublock Origin. That'll fix 99% of your problems.

[droopsnoot]

droopsnoot said:

Same on the Barclays machine I use regularly.

Actually, no it isn't. The lines from the screen amounts to the buttons are actually cast / moulded into the outer casing of the cash machine. In fact the problem seems to be that the physical buttons are too close together, which might make it difficult to associate the screen prompts with the buttons. To me the proper solution would be to spread the buttons out more.

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.

That would be annoying, whose cash machine is that? Barclays is just:

1. Enter PIN
2. Select Cash
3. Select amount
4. Want a receipt?
5. Wait for card, cash and receipt.

[DRFC1879]

It happens with various cashpoints; one that I know of off the top of my head is the one inside the local Co-op.

[TameRacingDriver]

Old Man Fred said:

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?

Don't get me started on this sort of people. I am very much the sort of person who takes no more than 30 seconds to withdraw some cash. Yet I ALWAYS seem to end up waiting behind some imbecile who not only puts about 3 cards in the machine, but also seems to struggle to operate the machine.

Probably the same s who hold me up at the supermarket in the shortest looking queue every time because they're pissing about with vouchers, complaining about something or acting surprised they have to pay for their fking goods! Needless to say I'm converting to online shopping this weekend and this is one reason why, I know I might not have to be as fussy but it'll be worth it if I can avoid visiting the god forsaken places.

[DRFC1879]

I race people at adjacent cashpoints for no reason other than my own satisfaction.

Example:

- Dithering numpty is at cashpoint one for a minute or two before cashpoint two becomes free.
- I go to cashpoint two and hammer through my transaction as quickly as possible.
- I walk off with my money while said ditherer is still trying to arrange a fking mortgage/complete a game of snake/whatever the hell they're doing on there.

Yes I know this achieves the square root of fk all and probably makes me some sort of passive aggressive moron but I'm a sad fker and I'll take whatever small victories I can in life.

[The Don of Croy]

0a said:

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

We have them in two wc's.

They look nice and work OK, but after a week you find you have a whole new area to clean that you never even considered before - up the channel 'cos that's where the deposits now sit (in full view of the user).

In another few years' it will annoy me beyond reason...

[Shakermaker]

Conversely, my parents have a tap like that in their downstairs bathroom but they have such poor water pressure that the water barely makes it over the edge. Any attempt to clean your hands is a tedious, drawn out affair

[austinsmirk]

Virtually anyone ever phoning in on the radio.

Especially people saying hello's after popmaster.

BBC R2 simon mayo Fri request show (do they still do it ?) where people ring in and tell you they are off to Tabitha's horse show and stuck in traffic and can they have S club seven or something. Ironically I always found the request show to play better music than the show selected itself.


the R2 mayo and Jo Whiley show. It's absolutely awful. doesn't work. We've stopped listening to it in the house.

[Shakermaker]

austinsmirk said:

Virtually anyone ever phoning in on the radio.

Especially people saying hello's after popmaster.

BBC R2 simon mayo Fri request show (do they still do it ?) where people ring in and tell you they are off to Tabitha's horse show and stuck in traffic and can they have S club seven or something. Ironically I always found the request show to play better music than the show selected itself.


the R2 mayo and Jo Whiley show. It's absolutely awful. doesn't work. We've stopped listening to it in the house.

The cynic in me always thinks they have a pre-selected list of music and wait for a caller who's made the right choice for the playlist

[weeboot]

Just Radio...
Any presenter or caller or advert on the radio, horrible.

Give me a premium streaming service and let me chose every note I hear.

[Last Visit]

Use of the expression 'shout out' on a radio show, or indeed it's use anywhere. As in, "Can I just give a shout out to my wife Tanya and my mate Steve".

[cuprabob]

Last Visit said:

Use of the expression 'shout out' on a radio show, or indeed it's use anywhere. As in, "Can I just give a shout out to my wife Tanya and my mate Steve".

I certainly agree with this.

Another one that gets on my goat are those who don't turn their radio down or off despite being told multiple times and get confused by the delay.

[talksthetorque]

[redacted]

[nonsequitur]

austinsmirk said:

Virtually anyone ever phoning in on the radio.

Especially people saying hello's after popmaster.

BBC R2 simon mayo Fri request show (do they still do it ?) where people ring in and tell you they are off to Tabitha's horse show and stuck in traffic and can they have S club seven or something. Ironically I always found the request show to play better music than the show selected itself.


.

Yes, although most phone in callers seem surprised to actually be on the radio when the host says their name.

[loudlashadjuster]

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.

You want to try a Belfius ATM in Belgium. From memory the workflow went a bit like this:

1. Insert card
2. Select language
3. Enter PIN
4. Select service
5. Confirm currency
6. Select notes and quantities
7. Confirm total amount
8. Collect money
9. Press to confirm you have taken the money (it's a drawer so gets closed when you confirm) and to return card (wtf?!)
10. Confirm receipt
11. Get card

I may have gotten it slightly mixed up but the whole process is a mess, so many opportunities for getting things wrong and far too many steps. In particular the failure to use the inherently safe 'get card, then cash' workflow that every other ATM has used since the 1980s, very easy to walk away with the cash but leave the card.

Baffling.

Edited by loudlashadjuster on Saturday 23 June 05:53

[Clockwork Cupcake]

loudlashadjuster said:

You want to try a Belfius ATM in Belgium. From memory the workflow went a bit like this:

[...]

I may have gotten it slightly mixed up but the whole process is a mess, so many opportunities for getting things wrong and far too many steps. In particular the failure to use the inherently safe 'get card, then cash' workflow that every other ATM has used since the 1980s, very easy to walk away with the cash but leave the card.

Baffling.

Yes, it has long been accepted that collecting the cash is the natural end to the transaction in the average person's mind, therefore you make them retrieve their card before taking their cash.

[Rostfritt]

loudlashadjuster said:

I may have gotten it slightly mixed up but the whole process is a mess, so many opportunities for getting things wrong and far too many steps. In particular the failure to use the inherently safe 'get card, then cash' workflow that every other ATM has used since the 1980s, very easy to walk away with the cash but leave the card.

Baffling.

A friend of mine managed to lose his card in an ATM in Thailand because it was in this order. He then managed to get another sent to his home which his mum forwarded to where we were staying in Vientiane, but addressed it to Vientiane, Laos, Thailand, so it just got lost.

[ESOG]

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".

Couple of examples:

1. My volvo

If you change the volume on the stereo, it displays a nice little graph showing what the volume is.......only problem, after you have finished changing the volume, the graph stays displayed for a few seconds - and while it's displayed, none of the other buttons on the stereo work (e.e. you cannot change radio stations). Why can't the stereo just detect that another button has been pressed and immediately cancel the volume display?

2. Cash machines

After the person in front has finished and taken their cash - it displays a thank you message on the screen. It won't accept another card in the slot until this message has cleared? Again why? Why can't it just detect than another car is being inserted, cancel the message and allow the transaction to proceed?

I really hate this. One of the biggest issues/frustrations in human machine interfaces and UIs is not providing immediate user feedback. Unless the machine/computer is doing something that cannot or should not be interrupted, responding to human interaction should be the absolute top priority.

I aree 100% on both points.

It is points like these that shows we are all really digging down deep into what our daily pet peeves are. I have another one other than the the way everyone I have ever heard pronounce alzheimers wrong.

I dont know how the fuel pumps work on your side of the pond but in America say you pay the cashier $10 for fuel. You go to the pump and it begins filling really fast but then the final .60 cents it slows down to a mere stop and takes what feels like forever to get to the $10. Every fuel station is different. Some slow down at .60, some slow down at .40 but the point is why, why cant it just go full speed and stop at the amount I paid for? Or why since I have seen some slow down at .20 cents left cant it be as close as possible. I know this point seems rather kiddish in its annoyance, but it is something that always bothers me, That and now they have television screens at every pump that go full volume on some quick stupid news or commercial.

I was born 1981 and I must say I detest media technology very much.

Or how about when trying to log into your gmail account from someone elses computer and denies you because it doesnt recognize the computer you are using so it asks to send a code to you cell phone which I left in my car because unlike every person on this planet I do NOT feel the need to carry my damned phone everywhere I go and have it on me at all times.

Or when people get mad at me because I dont text back RIGHT AWAY or answer my phone immediately. Sorry, I am not going to be a slave to this st!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

ESOG said:

Or how about when trying to log into your gmail account from someone elses computer and denies you because it doesnt recognize the computer you are using so it asks to send a code to you cell phone which I left in my car because unlike every person on this planet I do NOT feel the need to carry my damned phone everywhere I go and have it on me at all times.

It's called Two Factor Authentication ("something you know + something you have"), and it's a good thing. If you don't like it, switch it off. And set your password to "1234" or "password" whilst you're at it.

You could also leave your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition as it is more convenient.

Edit: Joking aside, as an IT Professional I would strongly advise against turning off Two Factor. If you don't want to have your phone with you all the time, gmail has the ability to generate a list of single-use access codes that are similar to the ones they would otherwise text to you. You can print them off and keep them in your wallet. Just remember to cross the number off the list each time you use one, though, because as I said they are single use.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 23 June 19:53

[whoami]

Creaking shoes.