Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[figbat]

I spent a fortune on a water softener. It does do something - I use much less detergent and shampoo.
So why do all my appliances, taps and loos still scale up?

Salt in it? Set to the right hardness level? Appliances are on the softened water circuit?

 

[lazybloke]

Salt in it? Set to the right hardness level? Appliances are on the softened water circuit?

Yes, I can definitely feel and see the difference in in the washing up and in clothes washing if I forget to add salt.

I think the only hardness adjustment is to change how many litres it allows between each refresh of the ion-exchange bed. Currently 1,750. Maybe that's too high.
Maybe the resin is old/contaminated/tired. Maybe the water from the rising main has changed in chemistry.

Or maybe my expectations of softened water were unrealistic.

 

[Alex321]

I've lost another pair of reading glasses. I had them in my pocket (I think), then after putting some recycling stuff in the bins outside I came back in to find them missing. I must lose a pair on average every 3 weeks. I went back outside to see if they were on the floor or even in the bins, but no luck.

That's why I buy all my reading glasses from poundstretcher or similar. Never pay more than a couple of quid a pair, then I can keep 3-4 pairs in different places around the house, plus one in the car, one in the office, and one in my man-bag. But at that price, if I break or lose a pair, it isn't a big loss.

 

[Chris S]

DJs on the radio not bothering to say what track they are playing.

 

[ColinJ]

DJs on the radio not bothering to say what track they are playing.

My (Google Pixel 5) phone listens out for any music playing and identifies it for me. It seems to recognise most of the music that I have tried it on.

Don't most radios display the info these days?

 

[Chris S]

My (Google Pixel 5) phone listens out for any music playing and identifies it for me. It seems to recognise most of the music that I have tried it on.

Don't most radios display the info these days?

Not analog ones

 

[Chris S]

Thick sliced loaves costing a lot more than medium sliced ones. Apart from the thickness of the slices they are identical.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Thick sliced loaves costing a lot more than medium sliced ones. Apart from the thickness of the slices they are identical.

I was astonished when the lady in our local bakers, when, having asked if we wanted our loaf sliced, then asked " thick or thin? " . I said " thick " as my wife was saying " thin " She then said " you can have both " and proceeded to put it in the magic machine and, lo and behold, thick slices one end, thin slices the other. ( this may be common knowledge that I've never been aware of )

 

[matticus]

Elf on the Shelf jokes. This "joke" must die, I fervently hope this christmas will be its last.

 

[Alex321]

I was astonished when the lady in our local bakers, when, having asked if we wanted our loaf sliced, then asked " thick or thin? " . I said " thick " as my wife was saying " thin " She then said " you can have both " and proceeded to put it in the magic machine and, lo and behold, thick slices one end, thin slices the other. ( this may be common knowledge that I've never been aware of )

Yes, the slicing machine has a "thick" end and a "thin" end, each easily long enough for a full loaf, or you put in the middle for a mixture - one end thin, one thick.

 

[ColinJ]

Not analog ones

I thought that all radio stations are digital now?!

 

[Alex321]

I thought that all radio stations are digital now?!

They are mostly still also broadcasting analog versions. And if your radio is tuned to one of those, it doesn't get any information.

Though TBH, it isn't always reliably showing the current track even when you are on the digital one, at least not from my experience in the car, which is the only place I usually listen to the radio.

I suspect the DJs who don't say what track they are playing probably forget that not all of their audience will be listening on something which displays that information.

 

[matticus]

I suspect the DJs who don't say what track they are playing probably forget that not all of their audience will be listening on something which displays that information.

Plus you might not be in a position to see the display; e.g. doing a "jog" (I believe they're called), or hands busy with some manual task. etc ...

 

[Mike_P]

A lot of radio is pre recorded with DJs links between tracks being auto inserted by the play out system. Should not be a reason to not mention the tracks but then not doing so allows for the same pre-recorded links to be repeated. A giveaway on some stations can be, if live, for example a weather forecast read out by the DJ after the news and no weather forecast when it's pre recorded (or voice tracked as it is known)

 

[Chislenko]

Over the course of the past couple of weeks I have redecorated all of downstairs to make it nice for Christmas. (No papering involved) just undercoat and gloss on the woodwork, emulsion on the ceilings and walls.

So I gets home from my ride the other day to find Mrs. C has put up all the Christmas lights up by sellotaping them to my newly glossed coving!!