Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[MontyVeda]

My printer.

I only seem to use it once every two or three years, and each and every time it's the same scenario...

My PC cannot connect to the printer. The printer can find wifi connections halfway down the street, but not the one a few feet away from it. Shouting at the printer doesn't work (although i try this first every time). Turning the wifi off and on doesn't work. Uninstalling the printer and reinstalling the software does work... but why do i have to this every time i want to use my fecking printer??

this, again ...but even removing the printer won't work this time! PC can't find printer, printer can't see my wi-fi

I'm at the point where i'm gonna try stamping on it, throwing it out of the window, going outside, stamping on it some more, all the while shouting obscenities. At least that way I won't have a fecking printer to annoy the feck out of me

 

[Oldhippy]

this, again ...but even removing the printer won't work this time! PC can't find printer, printer can't see my wi-fi

I'm at the point where i'm gonna try stamping on it, throwing it out of the window, going outside, stamping on it some more, all the while shouting obscenities. At least that way I won't have a fecking printer to annoy the feck out of me

I feel your pain.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

this, again ...but even removing the printer won't work this time! PC can't find printer, printer can't see my wi-fi

I'm at the point where i'm gonna try stamping on it, throwing it out of the window, going outside, stamping on it some more, all the while shouting obscenities. At least that way I won't have a fecking printer to annoy the feck out of me

Can you plug your printer directly into the router via a network cable? That’s what I do with mine. Then it can be found over Wi-Fi.

 

[MontyVeda]

ended up plugging directly into the PC with a USB... and didn't even trip over the cables stretching from one side of the room to another.

...which is another thing that annoys me: the lack of plug sockets in Victorian houses. didn't they have forward thinking in them days?!

 

[Blue Hills]

ended up plugging directly into the PC with a USB... and didn't even trip over the cables stretching from one side of the room to another.

...which is another thing that annoys me: the lack of plug sockets in Victorian houses. didn't they have forward thinking in them days?!

give them some credit - arsenic wallpaper.

 

[Hitchington]

I can't kill Chak'Lok

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Can you plug your printer directly into the router via a network cable? That’s what I do with mine. Then it can be found over Wi-Fi.

Hmmm. In my experience it can rarely be found over wifi

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Hmmm. In my experience it can rarely be found over wifi

So you do have it p,urged directly into the router but still not found?

 

[Chislenko]

The way that most sealants don't come with a top cap nowadays.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The way that most sealants don't come with a top cap nowadays.

They do after you use them once.
Next day they have developed their own cap

sorry - not helpful

 

[ColinJ]

...which is another thing that annoys me: the lack of plug sockets in Victorian houses. didn't they have forward thinking in them days?!

Did they even have electricity then?!

Our Coventry house was probably built in the 1930s and my dad was always annoyed by its lack of power sockets so he had SIX twin sockets put in round the wall of the living room!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

even in the 1980s power sockets were regarded as "you've got 2 in the lounge - how many do you need"

I bought a house in the early 1980s
the builders added on an extra charge for adding on extra sockets over and above the normal
it was only about £30 or so which was not a big thing based on the £24,500 for the house and the BIG argument over the kitchen

but I checked my neighbours and never found the extra sockets - just bought several 4 way extensions
OK - I admit it - as an computer person - my 'study' might well have been a fire hazard given that it had ONE socket and
lets say - more than one device

it is only recently that builders have started putting a reasonable number of sockets near the telly - we changed 2 into 6 - and still now need a fused extension

and even the bedroom are not wired up properly in older houses - who can cope with 1 socket in a bedroom ???

 

[Chislenko]

They do after you use them once.
Next day they have developed their own cap

sorry - not helpful

You are right though, luckily I have a few from when they did supply them so when I finish a tube I recycle the cap onto the new tube.

 

[lazybloke]

Our Coventry house was probably built in the 1930s and my dad was always annoyed by its lack of power sockets so he had SIX twin sockets put in round the wall of the living room!

I scattered 6 twin sockets round my lounge to supplement the original two single sockets.

But we had to change the layout, so now the TV sits where there's only a single socket within reach.
That socket feeds:

• The TV (obviously)
• Xbox
• Lamp
• Powerline network adapter
• Network switch
• Raspberry Pi
• Hard drive
• DECT Phone
• Phone charger

Looks hazardous!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I bought some 'Anadin Extra Strength' painkillers the other day. I've just read on the box that that they are soluble, not simple swallow them with a brew tablets. 🧐