Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[glasgowcyclist]

Barriers on cycle ways that are extremely hard to negotiate , even if you dismount. Yes I know, you’re worried about mini motos but that doesn’t mean farking it up for genuine users.

There’s a Twitter user called Heavy Metal Handcyclist (@CrippledCyclist) who sues the responsible authority for £1300 for every one of these he encounters and can’t negotiate. He submits an FoI for their Equality Impact Assessment via twitter and takes them to court.

He even has a template of the documentation for others to follow.

If you have a friend who could attempt the route in a wheelchair and fail, they could be quids in and it would get rid of the barrier. Win-win!

Edited to add: apparently the damages sued for are payable per incident and are repeatable, so it really lights a fire under them to get it fixed.

 

[ColinJ]

This pillock. His smug face, his horrible shoes, and the weird uncool way he returns the ball to the kids. Why was he waiting there for them to drop the ball anyway, if he was supposed to be going in the other direction? Actually the whole ad with its dirgey Oasis track and patronising, sentimental, 'fabric of life' vignettes. No, make it the whole series, with its insulting 'It's a people thing' slogan. Is it b******s.

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He certainly looks like a smug pillock, but since I "don't do ads", I have no idea who he is or what he is advertising! (I find 99% of TV ads annoying, boring, or depressing so I record everything and skip the ads when playing back the recordings. If I am unable to skip them on a streaming service I mute the sound and read while the ads are on.)

 

[theclaud]

He certainly looks like a smug pillock, but since I "don't do ads", I have no idea who he is or what he is advertising! (I find 99% of TV ads annoying, boring, or depressing so I record everything and skip the ads when playing back the recordings. If I am unable to skip them on a streaming service I mute the sound and read while the ads are on.)

Congratulations on avoiding it. It's for Halifax. The bank, not the town.

 

[ColinJ]

Congratulations on avoiding it. It's for Halifax. The bank, not the town.

Oh no, I DID actually catch part of one of those once but it was so annoying that I dived for the remote!

 

[oldwheels]

even worse with a tandem...

Worse still with a trike.

 

[Deleted User]

It's not the FA cup.

Also, going back to that £1.20 ticket, this represented 3% of my then weekly salary. So if todays match ticket (approx £45 for today's top-flight games - in the blessed north anyway) were still 3% of today's weekly salary, that would have the majority of match-goers today earning £1,500 per week or £78,000 per year. Most people don't earn that much indicating that in a time of scarcely believable sums coming from outside match-day receipts, the match-going fan is being fleeced like never before.

Whatever, I suppose the true measure can only be worked out using average wage from the time.

I started working and earned £23.50 in '81 but I doubt that was what an 'adult' earned.

League cup then. 🙄

 

[Hover Fly]

I can’t do the wordle if bunny has already done it.

 

[ColinJ]

My phone was doing the very same thing over Xmas and new year, so i ordered a couple of new batteries off ebay... at which point my phone decided to stop pi$$ing me about and started working normally again

I read somewhere that the battery charger calibration can go out of whack. The suggestion was to run a battery completely flat and then make sure that you fully recharge it. That way the system would know what the true endpoints are. I tried it on a Garmin GPS that was playing up like that and I think that it worked. Full charges certainly seemed to last longer than before, anyway.

 

[oldwheels]

I read somewhere that the battery charger calibration can go out of whack. The suggestion was to run a battery completely flat and then make sure that you fully recharge it. That way the system would know what the true endpoints are. I tried it on a Garmin GPS that was playing up like that and I think that it worked. Full charges certainly seemed to last longer than before, anyway.

My iPhone 7Plus started losing charge rapidly at random intervals and I could no longer rely on it so I got an iPhone 8+ reconditioned by Apple. I noticed it did not come from Apple as I expected but somewhere in Southern England with a different name.
I kept the old phone as a standby as it would only need shifting the card to work as a phone again.
Since then the old phone seems to keep charge reasonably as it is on wifi and used for everything but my few phone calls. Mysterious.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Red plastic 'straws' that come with aerosol cans of WD40, and other lubricants. Where do they go? they seem to dematerialise after first use. I have a crate full of various cans, all of which came with their own red straws. It took me ages to find just one when I needed it this morning.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Red plastic 'straws' that come with aerosol cans of WD40, and other lubricants. Where do they go? they seem to dematerialise after first use. I have a crate full of various cans, all of which came with their own red straws. It took me ages to find just one when I needed it this morning.

The problem seems to be that the rubber band that hold it onto the can goes brittle when expose to oil - like WD40
hence the red straw breaks off while you are not looking and the pixies take it away and store it with the lost teaspoons and single socks
probably

I have started to leave it pushed into the nozzle but that does mean I know it off teh shelf quite often when some other random thing catches on it


as far as using engine oil or 3-in-one is concerned - I always used this before I knew that 'special' oil was available. I stopped the 'fling' by leaving it for a while then running the chain through a clean cloth to take off the excess
N.B. not my Mum's best tea towel - no no no - I never did that

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Restaurant fish & chips, £16.99

8 chips!!!!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Some restaurants really should go to a decent chippie to see what a portion of chips looks like.

and for the sake of all the Gods stop putting them in those tiny buckets!!!!!!


and as for serving it on a plank with a plastic covered piece of pretend newspaper

some say there is a possibility I may be becoming grumpy as I get older - dunno what they are on about

 

[Alex321]

Some restaurants really should go to a decent chippie to see what a portion of chips looks like.

Personally, I'd rather have something in between. Most chippies in my experience give excessively large portions of chips.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There’s a Twitter user called Heavy Metal Handcyclist (@CrippledCyclist) who sues the responsible authority for £1300 for every one of these he encounters and can’t negotiate. He submits an FoI for their Equality Impact Assessment via twitter and takes them to court.

He even has a template of the documentation for others to follow.

If you have a friend who could attempt the route in a wheelchair and fail, they could be quids in and it would get rid of the barrier. Win-win!

Edited to add: apparently the damages sued for are payable per incident and are repeatable, so it really lights a fire under them to get it fixed.

Not on Twitter but good work by him.