Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
YouAbsolutePhallus said:
Snoring.
Third night of broken/very little sleep due to some of the worst snoring I've ever heard.
I've woken myself up with my own snoring before now. Third night of broken/very little sleep due to some of the worst snoring I've ever heard.
fp: <Nnnh> eh, ow, OW, OWWW! F$cking hell!
fwp: You were snoring. Roll over!
When questioned next day I was told I'd woken myself up and she merely offered the "roll over" suggestion.
I haven't asked how, in the process of snoring myself awake, I'd also managed to bruise both my shins.
Again.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
YouAbsolutePhallus said:
Snoring.
Third night of broken/very little sleep due to some of the worst snoring I've ever heard.
I've woken myself up with my own snoring before now. Third night of broken/very little sleep due to some of the worst snoring I've ever heard.
I also got a one bed side room off the ward when I had a 12 day stay in hospital after surgery for a broken leg. I was moved from the middle bed of three on one side of a 6-bay ward after the other patients begged the ward sister to put me in there when the previous "private" room occupant was discharged.
Also, I've never been attacked by bears while camping, so snoring is useful for something...
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
The eighth item is the first one that is actually what I searched for. What's the point of including all the other stuff that doesn't match all of my search criteria? If I want a 32Gb card, I'm not going to buy a 16Gb one just because it's, wait, 50p dearer than the 32Gb one. And why aren't the prices in order when I've selected "sort by price", and the top of the screen displays it?
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
The eighth item is the first one that is actually what I searched for. What's the point of including all the other stuff that doesn't match all of my search criteria? If I want a 32Gb card, I'm not going to buy a 16Gb one just because it's, wait, 50p dearer than the 32Gb one. And why aren't the prices in order when I've selected "sort by price", and the top of the screen displays it?
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
The eighth item is the first one that is actually what I searched for. What's the point of including all the other stuff that doesn't match all of my search criteria? If I want a 32Gb card, I'm not going to buy a 16Gb one just because it's, wait, 50p dearer than the 32Gb one. And why aren't the prices in order when I've selected "sort by price", and the top of the screen displays it?
Totally with you on that. 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
The eighth item is the first one that is actually what I searched for. What's the point of including all the other stuff that doesn't match all of my search criteria? If I want a 32Gb card, I'm not going to buy a 16Gb one just because it's, wait, 50p dearer than the 32Gb one. And why aren't the prices in order when I've selected "sort by price", and the top of the screen displays it?
Also, websites (Amazon in particular) that spam you a month or so later to buy another of what you bought. Fine for consumables, but not so good for high value items that are meant to last, like printers, phones, etc. How quickly do they expect these to need replacing?
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Totally with you on that.
Also, websites (Amazon in particular) that spam you a month or so later to buy another of what you bought. Fine for consumables, but not so good for high value items that are meant to last, like printers, phones, etc. How quickly do they expect these to need replacing?
Booking.com asking if I'm still interested in a holiday in Naples, Florida, which I had mistakenly clicked on instead of Naples, Italy, once, 10 years ago. Also, websites (Amazon in particular) that spam you a month or so later to buy another of what you bought. Fine for consumables, but not so good for high value items that are meant to last, like printers, phones, etc. How quickly do they expect these to need replacing?
Cotty said:
Bloody glitch on my work PC. When I try to copy and paste some text sometimes it does not copy the text and pastes the previous thing you copied. Sometimes when you re-copy the text it still does not copy.
Windows maintains separate clipboards for different types - text, binary, graphics, etc. I've often experienced the issue you're reporting when copying text from somewhere that uses a non-text clipboard buffer and pasting it into a place that expects text. In that scenario you get whatever is already in the text buffer (ie. the previous thing you copied). DISCLAIMER: I completely get your annoyance though. I'm only providing an explanation for why it happens, not saying you shouldn't be annoyed.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Windows maintains separate clipboards for different types - text, binary, graphics, etc. I've often experienced the issue you're reporting when copying text from somewhere that uses a non-text clipboard buffer and pasting it into a place that expects text. In that scenario you get whatever is already in the text buffer (ie. the previous thing you copied).
DISCLAIMER: I completely get your annoyance though. I'm only providing an explanation for why it happens, not saying you shouldn't be annoyed.
The thing is I have never experienced it at home or at any previous company I have worked at.DISCLAIMER: I completely get your annoyance though. I'm only providing an explanation for why it happens, not saying you shouldn't be annoyed.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Totally with you on that.
Also, websites (Amazon in particular) that spam you a month or so later to buy another of what you bought. Fine for consumables, but not so good for high value items that are meant to last, like printers, phones, etc. How quickly do they expect these to need replacing?
Sainsburys do this with Nectar points. Purchased a 60 tablet bottle of multivitamins, following week I get a voucher for 40 extra Nectar point if I buy a bottle. But I am not going to need another bottle for over two months. Also, websites (Amazon in particular) that spam you a month or so later to buy another of what you bought. Fine for consumables, but not so good for high value items that are meant to last, like printers, phones, etc. How quickly do they expect these to need replacing?
Its probably just an unsophisticated algorithm
Cotty said:
Sainsburys do this with Nectar points. Purchased a 60 tablet bottle of multivitamins, following week I get a voucher for 40 extra Nectar point if I buy a bottle. But I am not going to need another bottle for over two months.
Its probably just an unsophisticated algorithm
But you could buy them now whilst you get the bonus points and save them until you would use them in a couple of months? Not likely to have an expiration date within that time, but, it does put into the lower leagues of the "extreme couponers" Its probably just an unsophisticated algorithm
Shakermaker said:
But you could buy them now whilst you get the bonus points and save them until you would use them in a couple of months? Not likely to have an expiration date within that time, but, it does put into the lower leagues of the "extreme couponers"
If I buy another bottle too soon it will probably trip some algorithm and it will think “the coupon worked we will give him another next week”, so I buy another bottle and it gives me another coupon ad infinitum.Cotty said:
The thing is I have never experienced it at home or at any previous company I have worked at.
Fair enough. Well, anyway, it is a thing and I have seen it happen many times. It's very application-specific. I have one Use Case where the destination app simply won't accept a text paste from another app, but my text editor will. So I open a text editor, paste the text into that (which works, unlike the destination app), copy the text in the text editor, and paste into the destination app, which then works. I suspect the text editor is being far more clever on trying to convert the clipboard to text and the destination app is being far more pernicketty.
Anyway, make of that what you wish. As I said, I'm not denying you your right to be annoyed because it is indeed annoying. I just thought you might like to know why it is happening.
When you get spotted by a 'panda' car and they don't know how fast you were going, but pull you anyway. Then they say:
"Well I had to do xx mph to catch you up, therefore you must have been speeding!" This is the bit that annoys me. Then:
"Er, no, it doesn't quite work like that, you see..."
"Don't argue otherwise i'll nick you!" Or words to that effect.
Panda car, now there is a phrase you don't see much these days
"Well I had to do xx mph to catch you up, therefore you must have been speeding!" This is the bit that annoys me. Then:
"Er, no, it doesn't quite work like that, you see..."
"Don't argue otherwise i'll nick you!" Or words to that effect.
Panda car, now there is a phrase you don't see much these days
227bhp said:
When you get spotted by a 'panda' car and they don't know how fast you were going, but pull you anyway. Then they say:
"Well I had to do xx mph to catch you up, therefore you must have been speeding!" This is the bit that annoys me. Then:
"Er, no, it doesn't quite work like that, you see..."
"Don't argue otherwise i'll nick you!" Or words to that effect.
Panda car, now there is a phrase you don't see much these days
The other one is where you are doing over 60mph, but less than 70mph, on a road that has one lane in each direction but is separated by a permanent reservation. Even some members of the Police don't realise that this makes it a dual carriageway and hence 70mph (unless otherwise signposted). "Well I had to do xx mph to catch you up, therefore you must have been speeding!" This is the bit that annoys me. Then:
"Er, no, it doesn't quite work like that, you see..."
"Don't argue otherwise i'll nick you!" Or words to that effect.
Panda car, now there is a phrase you don't see much these days
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