Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Gwylan]

Polo shirts, people who wear them out of choice.
Those who have to wear them as part of their terms of employment are exonerated.
People who buy and wear polo shirts advertising resorts, cruise ships, indifferent sports clubs or tacky destinations all attract my pity.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Polo shirts, people who wear them out of choice.
Those who have to wear them as part of their terms of employment are exonerated.
People who buy and wear polo shirts advertising resorts, cruise ships, indifferent sports clubs or tacky destinations all attract my pity.

I favour a polo shirt over a t-shirt because they hide a multitude of sins. e.g. my hairy neck and very bad posture

 

[Gwylan]

I favour a polo shirt over a t-shirt because they hide a multitude of sins. e.g. my hairy neck and very bad posture

Well I won't get started on T shirts and singlets then.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Polo shirts, people who wear them out of choice.
Those who have to wear them as part of their terms of employment are exonerated.
People who buy and wear polo shirts advertising resorts, cruise ships, indifferent sports clubs or tacky destinations all attract my pity.

I don't technically have to wear one at work, but the choice is a T-shirt or a button down shirt. I wear black, the better for hiding oil and dirt, and I have to wear work trousers which are lumpy things lavishly supplied with pockets. A T-shirt makes me look like a dad trying to look like a rapper, and a button down shirt in this combination would look downright evil. The Polo shirt is fairly unobtrusive while looking relatively smart.

That said, a Polo shirt with any advertising is just wrong, unless you're paid by the featured company.

 

[lazybloke]

Empty promises from broadband suppliers.

'We'll get you connected before Christmas'.
'We have a technical difficulty, early Jan'
'We're sorry it didn't complete. Mid-Jan'.
'We need more time, end of Jan'.

 

[matticus]

Polo shirts, people who wear them out of choice.
Those who have to wear them as part of their terms of employment are exonerated.
People who buy and wear polo shirts advertising resorts, cruise ships, indifferent sports clubs or tacky destinations all attract my pity.

I only wear them in semi-fancy restaurants. [in proper restaurants, I wear a DJ. Obvs ... ]

 

[simongt]

especially when I hear people who should know better mis - using the word. 🤦🙄

It appears that those 'who should know better' care more about sounding trendy that using correct terminology.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Battery powered smoke detectors - why does the low battery beep always start happening in the middle of the night.

 

[figbat]

Battery powered smoke detectors - why does the low battery beep always start happening in the middle of the night.

Rhetorical or not I’ll have a go at this. Presumably the low battery alarm is triggered when the voltage drops below a certain limit. Battery output depends on a number of factors, one being temperature. So as the overall voltage drops over time there will come a time when it is just above the alarm threshold. The first time it dips below the limit is the next night, as the household temperature falls.

No idea if thats true or not.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

No idea if thats true or not.

It was what I assumed, but I like to assume they have been deliberately designed that way to annoy me. It was a rhetorical question really.

 

[Mburton1993]

When people leave litter on top of a wall, like it doesn't count as littering.

It counts.

 

[classic33]

Rhetorical or not I’ll have a go at this. Presumably the low battery alarm is triggered when the voltage drops below a certain limit. Battery output depends on a number of factors, one being temperature. So as the overall voltage drops over time there will come a time when it is just above the alarm threshold. The first time it dips below the limit is the next night, as the household temperature falls.

No idea if thats true or not.

True.
https://www.kidde.com/home-safety/e...s/articles/smoke_alarm_beeping_overnight.html

 

[Tenkaykev]

It was what I assumed, but I like to assume they have been deliberately designed that way to annoy me. It was a rhetorical question really.

The pitch of the low battery tone was specially chosen to make it nigh on impossible to detect the location of the noise. That's why I once spent the best part of a morning trying to find where the faint intermittent beep was coming from. I stood still waiting for the beep before deciding I must have been imagining it, then it soulded again. I even wandered into the garden before the penny dropped. 😮

 

[figbat]

It was what I assumed, but I like to assume they have been deliberately designed that way to annoy me. It was a rhetorical question really.

I believe they also have sensors that mean that the low battery alarm goes off when it is certain you don’t have another battery available.

 

[figbat]

The pitch of the low battery tone was specially chosen to make it nigh on impossible to detect the location of the noise. That's why I once spent the best part of a morning trying to find where the faint intermittent beep was coming from. I stood still waiting for the beep before deciding I must have been imagining it, then it soulded again. I even wandered into the garden before the penny dropped. 😮

We had a similar thing recently - a regular chirp that we couldn’t track down. It turned out to be the CO alarm in the caravan, parked on the drive.