Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[figbat]

All hospital car parks are free in Wales.

Bit of a long walk to the John Radcliffe though.

 

[ColinJ]

The YouTube app on my Freesat box has a really stupid bug/lack of feature... There is no way to stop watching a video and go back to the list you chose it from. Either you have to go on to one of the videos suggested to you, or exit the app and start again. How could anybody ever release it working like that!!!!

(I usually end up casting YT to my Chromecast dongle instead because that missing feature drives me nuts.)

 

[Electric_Andy]

Crikey, that would be very annoying. I have a bug with my TV (even though I watch YT through the firestick), any YouTube shorts start playing and then 10 seconds in they revert to portrait mode and are covered in green pixelated mess. Doesn't happen on any other device other than my TV

 

[colly]

A not at all trivial irritation let me say up front.
Our vegetable steamer. The most hopelessly designed, ill thought out, blood pressure raising, stroke inducing device to have EVER been invented

To be fair it does steam vegetables very well, but that is the only thing it does well.

It has three baskets...with loose bottoms. Loose bottoms that have holes in. Yes, holes are needed. But the holes are so big they allow peas to drop through, not only that but in the centre of the loose bottom there is an especially large hole so large in fact that smaller carrots/cauliflower/brocolli/green beans will fall through.
The baskets stack one upon another using a lip which is so microscopic in elevation as to allow the baskets to slide sideways at the merest of touches. Why even a slight breeze puts the whole assembly at risk. The small lip allows water to drip out down the outside.
Should the stack of plastic bits manage to stay in place long enough to cook the veg, attempting to remove the veg is dangerous/messy in the extreme.
You pick up the top basket remove it the where the plate or serving bowl is and as you attempt to either tip the veg out or trying to be cunning scoop it out with a slotted spoon the lighter than air base of the basket slips sideways. This results in either most of the veg slipping through the gaping chasm of the open ended basket all over the worktop/plates and or the base tumbling out along with the veg.
If you are foolish enough to have cooked peas and have tried to outwit the damn thing by buying great big FAT peas the peas still drop all over the place through the large centre hole. And of course the basket base flops forwards again shedding bloody peas left right and centre.
So after sweeping peas and bits of veg up from the far corners of the kitchen and sneakily sliding it onto the plates. (no one will notice) you finally sit down to eat what is now stone cold, gritty, possibly hairy veg.
Dinner over and so it's on to cleaning up the steamer.
The baskets being poly carbonate float away plastic they have to be hand washed, after picking out all the slightly larger bits of veg that are stuck in the holes. Even after washing and drying there's a problem with stacking. The baskets do sit neatly inside each other (not so neat actually) and sitting in the cupboard on top of the steamer base you would thing they would be snug and safe.
Not a bit of it. The basket that sits into the base is held in place again it seems by sky hooks. As before there is a lip to contain the baskets and again it would take an electron microscope to detect it. So the baskets are just itching to fall all over the place even inside a cupboard.
The steamer was given as a gift to replace the one we had after the baskets had split and cracked after about 7 years use.

Gift or not it's going.

 

[Jameshow]

A not at all trivial irritation let me say up front.
Our vegetable steamer. The most hopelessly designed, ill thought out, blood pressure raising, stroke inducing device to have EVER been invented

To be fair it does steam vegetables very well, but that is the only thing it does well.

It has three baskets...with loose bottoms. Loose bottoms that have holes in. Yes, holes are needed. But the holes are so big they allow peas to drop through, not only that but in the centre of the loose bottom there is an especially large hole so large in fact that smaller carrots/cauliflower/brocolli/green beans will fall through.
The baskets stack one upon another using a lip which is so microscopic in elevation as to allow the baskets to slide sideways at the merest of touches. Why even a slight breeze puts the whole assembly at risk. The small lip allows water to drip out down the outside.
Should the stack of plastic bits manage to stay in place long enough to cook the veg, attempting to remove the veg is dangerous/messy in the extreme.
You pick up the top basket remove it the where the plate or serving bowl is and as you attempt to either tip the veg out or trying to be cunning scoop it out with a slotted spoon the lighter than air base of the basket slips sideways. This results in either most of the veg slipping through the gaping chasm of the open ended basket all over the worktop/plates and or the base tumbling out along with the veg.
If you are foolish enough to have cooked peas and have tried to outwit the damn thing by buying great big FAT peas the peas still drop all over the place through the large centre hole. And of course the basket lid flops forwards again shedding bloody peas left right and centre.
So after sweeping peas and bits of veg up from the far corners of the kitchen and sneakily sliding it onto the plates. (no one will notice) you finally sit down to eat what is now stone cold, gritty, possibly hairy veg.
Dinner over and so it's on to cleaning up the steamer.
The baskets being poly carbonate float away plastic they have to be hand washed, after picking out all the slightly larger bits of veg that are stuck in the holes. Even after washing and drying there's a problem with stacking. The baskets do sit neatly inside each other ( not so neat actually) and sitting in the cupboard on top of the steamer base you would thing they would be snug and safe.
Not a bit of it. The basket that sits into the base is held in place again it seems by sky hooks. As before there is a lip to contain the baskets and again it would take an electron microscope to detect it. So the baskets are just itching to fall all over the place even inside a cupboard.
The steamer was given as a gift to replace the one we had after the baskets had split and cracked after about 7 years use.

Gift or not it's going.

Get yourself a cooker top one much better!

 

[ColinJ]

A not at all trivial irritation let me say up front.
Our vegetable steamer. The most hopelessly designed, ill thought out, blood pressure raising, stroke inducing device to have EVER been invented

To be fair it does steam vegetables very well, but that is the only thing it does well.

It has three baskets...with loose bottoms. Loose bottoms that have holes in. Yes, holes are needed. But the holes are so big they allow peas to drop through, not only that but in the centre of the loose bottom there is an especially large hole so large in fact that smaller carrots/cauliflower/brocolli/green beans will fall through.
The baskets stack one upon another using a lip which is so microscopic in elevation as to allow the baskets to slide sideways at the merest of touches. Why even a slight breeze puts the whole assembly at risk. The small lip allows water to drip out down the outside.
Should the stack of plastic bits manage to stay in place long enough to cook the veg, attempting to remove the veg is dangerous/messy in the extreme.
You pick up the top basket remove it the where the plate or serving bowl is and as you attempt to either tip the veg out or trying to be cunning scoop it out with a slotted spoon the lighter than air base of the basket slips sideways. This results in either most of the veg slipping through the gaping chasm of the open ended basket all over the worktop/plates and or the base tumbling out along with the veg.
If you are foolish enough to have cooked peas and have tried to outwit the damn thing by buying great big FAT peas the peas still drop all over the place through the large centre hole. And of course the basket lid flops forwards again shedding bloody peas left right and centre.
So after sweeping peas and bits of veg up from the far corners of the kitchen and sneakily sliding it onto the plates. (no one will notice) you finally sit down to eat what is now stone cold, gritty, possibly hairy veg.
Dinner over and so it's on to cleaning up the steamer.
The baskets being poly carbonate float away plastic they have to be hand washed, after picking out all the slightly larger bits of veg that are stuck in the holes. Even after washing and drying there's a problem with stacking. The baskets do sit neatly inside each other ( not so neat actually) and sitting in the cupboard on top of the steamer base you would thing they would be snug and safe.
Not a bit of it. The basket that sits into the base is held in place again it seems by sky hooks. As before there is a lip to contain the baskets and again it would take an electron microscope to detect it. So the baskets are just itching to fall all over the place even inside a cupboard.
The steamer was given as a gift to replace the one we had after the baskets had split and cracked after about 7 years use.

Gift or not it's going.

I've got a nice stainless steel one, very similar to THIS. I used it again this evening. 13 minutes for perfect carrots and swede, parsnip added after 3 minutes, and broccoli and cabbage in the second basket for the final 8 minutes.

 

[colly]

Get yourself a cooker top one much better!

Well that would work but the reason we have a seperate electric one is it will save space on the cooker top.

 

[Alex321]

Well that would work but the reason we have a seperate electric one is it will save space on the cooker top.

We use a steamer basket that goes on top of a normal pan - one like This.

It does mean we only have one layer of steaming, but it gets used pretty regularly, for things liker asparagus at this time of year, or my sprouts in the winter (my wife likes hers cooked to death, I like mine al dente, so hers go in the water in the pan, mine go on the steamer above, a few minutes after hers have started cooking).

 

[Tenkaykev]

We use a steamer basket that goes on top of a normal pan - one like This.

It does mean we only have one layer of steaming, but it gets used pretty regularly, for things liker asparagus at this time of year, or my sprouts in the winter (my wife likes hers cooked to death, I like mine al dente, so hers go in the water in the pan, mine go on the steamer above, a few minutes after hers have started cooking).

Our 5 year old granddaughter loves to eat raw sprouts ( and prefers the main stem of broccoli to the " little trees " as she calls them )
Grandma picks off the outer leaves and rinses a small bowl of sprouts for her to crunch on while we're preparing dinner. 😮

 

[Chromatic]

Our 5 year old granddaughter loves to eat raw sprouts ( and prefers the main stem of broccoli to the " little trees " as she calls them )
Grandma picks off the outer leaves and rinses a small bowl of sprouts for her to crunch on while we're preparing dinner. 😮

This has taken me back to my childhood, I like raw sprouts and when I was a kid I always used to nick a few as my mum was preparing them.

 

[Electric_Andy]

When in australia, a Japanese mate of mine bought a bag of sprouts thinking that they were some kind of salad snack. He had them for mid-morning lunch and was promptly seen running off behind the bushes to evacuate his bowels. He spent the rest of the day curled up in pain in the car. I must admit, I've tried raw broccoli before and I like it but it gave me D&V

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

This has taken me back to my childhood, I like raw sprouts and when I was a kid I always used to nick a few as my mum was preparing them.

I have eaten them raw in the past and they were ok. In fact, the only time I don't like sprouts us when they have been boiled for at least 48 hours and are little better than sludge, I mean, what's the point?

 

[PeteXXX]

Anybody, be it in a shop, business or street, who walks towards me holding a clipboard on one hand & a pen in the other.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Anybody, be it in a shop, business or street, who walks towards me holding a clipboard on one hand & a pen in the other.

Handy tip for introverts: Carry a clipboard and pen and everyone avoids you.

 

[oldwheels]

All hospital car parks are free in Wales.

And Scotland is free also tho' I think there is still one where the contract set up by the labour party years ago cannot be bought out as the people holding the franchise refuse to negotiate.