Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Tenkaykev]

Ich habe vergessen alles.

Bitte sprechen Sie langsamer...
My youngest daughter was working in Berlin as an English teacher. I visited a few times and loved the city. We even ran the Berlin Half Marathon together. I started to learn the German language and found it delightful, the realisation that our languages are so similar and the laugh out loud literalness of some words and phrases. Unfortunately our daughter came back after a couple of years and my resolve sort of petered out. I still dip in from time to time, I think the mental exercise is extremely valuable, especially as I'm now in my 70's and need to keep the neurons firing...

 

[PeteXXX]

People that, in a couple of days, will be saying "Oooh, looks like the nights are drawing in again".

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Probably not so trivial, but annoying all the same: The failure of parents to actually parent. You know the type, those absolute wet weekends who call their 5 year old "mate".

I've just got my 11 year old daughter her first mobile smart phone, in my view it's still too young but it is 2022, she was almost literally the last in her class, and I don't want her being laughed at when she goes up to big school. But obviously there are agreed controls in place, curfew times, no unrestricted Internet, etc. Just sensible stuff for her safety.

In the last two days it's become very clear that there are no such restrictions on many of the kids. Texts sent after midnight, unrestricted internet allowed in their bedrooms. I asked one set of parents if they felt it was healthy to let a 10 year old have a phone in their room, and they admitted that they regret never having laid any ground rules early on, and now they feel it's too late to impose on the little brat.

As Chris Rock once said, "parent your kids, before they rob me in ten years". They're children in your care, they're not your mates.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Probably not so trivial, but annoying all the same: The failure of parents to actually parent. You know the type, those absolute wet weekends who call their 5 year old "mate".
...

... They're children in your care, they're not your mates.

1: I agree
2: Many of these parents are like this because they didn't have an example from their parents.

 

[Threevok]

Crappy Journalism on slow news days

For instance - the headline for today is

How is rail strike affecting passengers in Wales?

Well, I'm no expert but, without even reading the rest, I think I can take a guess how it's affecting them.

 

[cyberknight]

Bike rack at work where i have lock my bike up for a good 10 years , my lock is on the bar and like most everyone gets on with it and uses the same spot everyday.
Got to work yesterday and a shiny new expensive bike is locked in "my spot " which is not much of an issue but they havent bothered to pull my lock along the bar so i have to jiggle around to extract it from behind their bike .When i come out to go home their lock has now been left is said spot so in a fit of grumpiness i yank their chain a good 10 feet along the bar and lock my chain to my d lock in the appropriate corner so it cant be moved .

 

[mustang1]

Those pulsing indicators on Audis and VWs are fine.

But when other car companies copy that idea, they make a right screw up of it.

For example Lexus and Range Rover have such small length indicators that it takes a while to tell if they are in fact indicating.

 

[Threevok]

Those pulsing indicators on Audis and VWs are fine.

I remember when Mrs V first saw one of those

Mrs V : "Wow!! Did you see that?"

Me : "Yes, amazing !!! An Audi with indicators!!"

 

[matticus]

Those pulsing indicators on Audis and VWs are fine.

But when other car companies copy that idea, they make a right screw up of it.

For example Lexus and Range Rover have such small length indicators that it takes a while to tell if they are in fact indicating.

Is the problem that they just look like a steady yellow light (unless you're right up close). That does sound like a disaster ...

 

[Threevok]

Last night, two ITV Wales presenters arguing over the pronunciation of "Lido"

Well, I can tell you

"out-door-swim-ming-pool"

now be off with you, to play your graaaand piaaaaano

 

[DCBassman]

I remember when Mrs V first saw one of those

Mrs V : "Wow!! Did you see that?"

Me : "Yes, amazing !!! An Audi with indicators!!"

Correct response!

 

[Specialeyes]

There's a local band here, who did lots of online gigs during the various lockdowns, called When Rivers Meet.

This anoys me beyond all bounds of reasonableness! Rivers don't meet at a "when" other than once in geological time terms, but at a point in space, a "where". Grrr, annoys the heck out of me

 

[Andy in Germany]

When I try and use autocorrect on my phone and realise I've got it set for the wrong language. For some reason it can detect what I've written, but not match this to the language on its database...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

There's a local band here, who did lots of online gigs during the various lockdowns, called When Rivers Meet.

This anoys me beyond all bounds of reasonableness! Rivers don't meet at a "when" other than once in geological time terms, but at a point in space, a "where". Grrr, annoys the heck out of me

Did I Break The Law is a cracking track though. Planet Rock play it a lot


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgq7A_xgrEc

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Those pulsing indicators on Audis and VWs are fine.

Pulsing indicators are a solution to a problem still to be found.

Nobody has ever looked at a flashing amber light on the right corner of a car and thought...

"Hang on, what direction is this guy going to lunge? Could be left, could be right, there's simply no way of knowing. If only someone at a premium car company could come up with an expensive and complicated way to tell us, say, by having a computer processor control 26 light bulbs all moving in the direction in which the driver has moved his stalk... then, and only then, will we be wiser as to the directional intentions of this vehicle!"

The most pointless idea ever, for road users.
For car manufacturers and their service departments, probably lucrative in the long run. Hence they're not fine, they're a trival thing which make me annoyed beyond expectations.