Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Raccaccoonie said:

What's annoying though about it?

I'm guessing it's because the pull tab has come off with the lid, meaning he'll have to risk life and limb with scissors or an inappropriate knife prising the seal off.

[Cotty]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I'm guessing it's because the pull tab has come off with the lid, meaning he'll have to risk life and limb with scissors or an inappropriate knife prising the seal off.

Also its a pain in the ass to get the little tab out of the lid as you don't want it falling into the milk when you screw the lid back on.

[Raccaccoonie]

Never noticed, I do like to live life on the edge though.

[Milkyway]

Cotty said:

Also its a pain in the ass to get the little tab out of the lid as you don't want it falling into the milk when you screw the lid back on.

It’s like sauce bottles, I don’t even bother pulling on the seal tabs... Just run a small knife around the inside of the neck & dispose.
( Haven’t injured myself... yet).

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 26th March 16:44

[Killer2005]

The never ending property thing that's over social media. Whilst I appreciate why the lady has done it, I now hate her and anything to do with her.

[Penny Whistle]

Milkyway said:

Cotty said:

Also its a pain in the ass to get the little tab out of the lid as you don't want it falling into the milk when you screw the lid back on.

It’s like sauce bottles, I don’t even bother pulling on the seal tabs... Just run a small knife around the inside of the neck & dispose.
( Haven’t injured myself... yet).

Be careful with that devil-may-care attitude. It reminds me of a fella who decided it was too difficult to remove the perforated cardboard circle for the tap on a wine box (remember them ?) properly, so he'd just stab it with a sharp knife. Such a waste of mediocre wine.

[Raccaccoonie]

TV shows,movies etc

Watching voice chat normal then a song is played very loudly. Worse still is people chatting over very loud sounds. The songs should be integrated better

[Milkyway]

Penny Whistle said:

Be careful with that devil-may-care attitude. It reminds me of a fella who decided it was too difficult to remove the perforated cardboard circle for the tap on a wine box (remember them ?) properly, so he'd just stab it with a sharp knife. Such a waste of mediocre wine.

The people that grab a knife to cut the tape on a box, you only need to use the tip... or use a key.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 26th March 22:54

[Langweilig]

Milkyway said:

Penny Whistle said:

Be careful with that devil-may-care attitude. It reminds me of a fella who decided it was too difficult to remove the perforated cardboard circle for the tap on a wine box (remember them ?) properly, so he'd just stab it with a sharp knife. Such a waste of mediocre wine.

The people that grab a knife to cut the tape on a box, you only need to use the tip... or use a key.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 26th March 22:54

Instructions for unpacking a Sharp smart TV - "Tha don't slice t'wrappin' off with t'carvin' knife!"

[LunarOne]

Langweilig said:

Milkyway said:

Penny Whistle said:

Be careful with that devil-may-care attitude. It reminds me of a fella who decided it was too difficult to remove the perforated cardboard circle for the tap on a wine box (remember them ?) properly, so he'd just stab it with a sharp knife. Such a waste of mediocre wine.

The people that grab a knife to cut the tape on a box, you only need to use the tip... or use a key.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 26th March 22:54

Instructions for unpacking a Sharp smart TV - "Tha don't slice t'wrappin' off with t'carvin' knife!"

If it really is a sharp smart TV, you'd think it would be able to get itself out of the packing materials!

[Zumbruk]

Reasons your GUI may be sh!t;

- It needs an "application launcher" (everything)
- Icons need labels saying what they are (the wastebasket being a 'good' example)(everything)
- It has hidden options accessible only through the keyboard (macOS)
- Doing the same thing in different places has different effects (Yes, Windows drag'n'drop, I'm talking about you - and all the Linux distros that have copied you, so the user has no idea if D'n'D is going to Copy or Move)
- Rather than exposing the UI to the user, it tries to hide it all away for a 'clean' look (Linux XApps)
- Any part of it is animated when not in use (web browsers)
- You have to 'hover' over things to find out what they are
- It is impossible to distinguish between buttons & decoration (Android, but increasingly everything)
- When you do 'hover' over something in order to find out what it is, nothing happens

[TameRacingDriver]

Instagram. Or more accurately, the way it serves you some absolute crap like some tosser making videos in the gym, so you say you aren't interested. What does it do? Gives you even more posts that you've just said you're not interested in. FFS.

[TameRacingDriver]

Zumbruk said:

Reasons your GUI may be sh!t;

- It needs an "application launcher" (everything)
- Icons need labels saying what they are (the wastebasket being a 'good' example)(everything)
- It has hidden options accessible only through the keyboard (macOS)
- Doing the same thing in different places has different effects (Yes, Windows drag'n'drop, I'm talking about you - and all the Linux distros that have copied you, so the user has no idea if D'n'D is going to Copy or Move)
- Rather than exposing the UI to the user, it tries to hide it all away for a 'clean' look (Linux XApps)
- Any part of it is animated when not in use (web browsers)
- You have to 'hover' over things to find out what they are
- It is impossible to distinguish between buttons & decoration (Android, but increasingly everything)
- When you do 'hover' over something in order to find out what it is, nothing happens

And to add to that, icons on mobile devices that mean nothing but you can't hover over them so you just have to tap on it to see what it does.

Androids recent trend for wanting to make all the icons look virtually identical so you can no longer see at a glance what something is.

Windows and it's complete inconsistency. You click on something on the nice new pretty Windows 11 interface only to be greeted by a dialog box that appears to have been designed three decades ago.

[RizzoTheRat]

TameRacingDriver said:

And to add to that, icons on mobile devices that mean nothing but you can't hover over them so you just have to tap on it to see what it does.

...and names for icons that aren't intuitive. For example googles "Play store" rather calling it Android or Google Store, and Allianz's health insurance app which is called "My Health". One of my credit card providers have an app called "Credit Card" which does make some sense, but not when other providers use the name of the bank. The banking app from the same bank used to be called Banking but they have changed it to the name of the bank now, which was an annoyance when they did it and I had to remember which icon to look for, but it does make more sense now.

[5s Alive]

Play Store? They must have had primary schools running brainstorming sessions to come up with that one. Bugs me everytime I download an app.

[Doofus]

I use NovaLauncher and it allows me to remove text labels from all my icons.

[5s Alive]

Doofus said:

I use NovaLauncher and it allows me to remove text labels from all my icons.

Also to remove the search bar. I do love a clean interface.

[bmwmike]

In a work setting, when someone says "hi" and then sits waiting for a reply.

nohello.com

[captain_cynic]

bmwmike said:

In a work setting, when someone says "hi" and then sits waiting for a reply.

nohello.com

Which is why I never respond to them.

[TameRacingDriver]

captain_cynic said:

bmwmike said:

In a work setting, when someone says "hi" and then sits waiting for a reply.

nohello.com

Which is why I never respond to them.

Same. Just tell me what you want FFS, I'm sure you don't want to talk about the weather, and neither do I