Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[matticus]

Diesel in Hawes £1.38

Everywhere else £1.45

Not as if Hawes is an easy place to get too, yet they can sell it at 5p cheaper than everyone else!!

perfect post. thankyou.

 

[fossyant]

Not only a knobhead, but also lazy to boot! 🧐 I have a kind of slow puncture that requires inflation every week or so. I use an old fashioned double barreled foot pump to pump at that tyre and the other three every fortnight. Cometh the day when I need an electric pump is the time to give up, as they say!🧐

Puncture must be getting worse as he 'inflated it' yesterday afternoon, and has had to do it again this morning. ZZZZZZZZ for 5 plus minutes every morning - at least I'm on my way out, but the 'retired' neighbours certainly aren't at that time of the day.

 

[matticus]

Puncture must be getting worse as he 'inflated it' yesterday afternoon, and has had to do it again this morning. ZZZZZZZZ for 5 plus minutes every morning - at least I'm on my way out, but the 'retired' neighbours certainly aren't at that time of the day.

Our neighbour with the biggest vehicle in the cul-de-sac leaves his "rig" warming up for between 5-15minutes in the morning. Year-round.
I've never seen any puncture fettling.

 

[mustang1]

Some decades ago, when robots and automation started making things, people used to say the robots make a better product.

Now, decades later, people seek out hand made products because they are better.

Ps: I just got an email from a mobile phone network provider offering me the latest deals that's were hand picked for me. What does that mean "hand picked"? Like someone pressed a button and the automation kicked in, but they had to press a button so does that qualify as "hand picked"?

Or could it be hand picked because the company's automation system isn't up to par so they have to do all this by hand?

 

[MontyVeda]

things like this on product packaging...

How many pairs of eyes didn't notice the error before they OK'd the design?

 

[Windle]

things like this on product packaging...

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How many pairs of eyes didn't notice the error before they OK'd the design?

Maybe it's safer using it clockwise .

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Some decades ago, when robots and automation started making things, people used to say the robots make a better product.

Now, decades later, people seek out hand made products because they are better.

Ps: I just got an email from a mobile phone network provider offering me the latest deals that's were hand picked for me. What does that mean "hand picked"? Like someone pressed a button and the automation kicked in, but they had to press a button so does that qualify as "hand picked"?

Or could it be hand picked because the company's automation system isn't up to par so they have to do all this by hand?

Hand picked comes into the same category as "specially selected"

and "New Improved"

means nothing unless you know the criteria which are being used to pick or select the stuff

In my experience it is often more to do with the profit of the thing than customer satisfaction

 

[Windle]

Hand picked comes into the same category as "specially selected"

and "New Improved"

means nothing unless you know the criteria which are being used to pick or select the stuff

In my experience it is often more to do with the profit of the thing than customer satisfaction

It's just marketing bowlocks though, does anybody even believe this stuff anymore? Did anyone ever?
It's the same with adverts, they're all flashy and cinematic and artistically crafted horsecrap that rarely tell you about the product. I'm sure some highly qualified advertising consultants will say that they work but my brain must be wired differently as they definitly don't work on me. Maybe I'm too cynical.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It's just marketing bowlocks though, does anybody even believe this stuff anymore? Did anyone ever?
It's the same with adverts, they're all flashy and cinematic and artistically crafted horsecrap that rarely tell you about the product. I'm sure some highly qualified advertising consultants will say that they work but my brain must be wired differently as they definitly don't work on me. Maybe I'm too cynical.

But how many tunes or images from adverts would you immediately remember if you heard/saw them

sometimes this if the only point - even if you have no clue as to the actual product

marketing is weird

 

[ColinJ]

It's just marketing bowlocks though, does anybody even believe this stuff anymore? Did anyone ever?
It's the same with adverts, they're all flashy and cinematic and artistically crafted horsecrap that rarely tell you about the product. I'm sure some highly qualified advertising consultants will say that they work but my brain must be wired differently as they definitly don't work on me. Maybe I'm too cynical.

But 'blue whiteness' was definitely whiter than white!!! And Shake 'n' Vac did put the freshness back, didn't it???

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

But 'blue whiteness' was definitely whiter than white!!! And Shake 'n' Vac did put the freshness back, didn't it???

Excatly my point
how many on here were singing the Shake and Vac theme in their head when they read that??

 

[Sterlo]

Excatly my point
how many on here were singing the Shake and Vac theme in their head when they read that??

Sadly, yes me, not only that, how many others can still also remember all of the words

 

[MontyVeda]

Sadly, yes me, not only that, how many others can still also remember all of the words

i can only remember half of them ... but the Blue Ribband Blues is an earworm i always get in full in the biscuit aisle.

 

[youngoldbloke]

The Amazon Prime ad featuring 'Full of Life' by Christine and the Queens always stops me in my tracks. (NB The full video of the song contains 'adult' language)

 

[Windle]

But how many tunes or images from adverts would you immediately remember if you heard/saw them

sometimes this if the only point - even if you have no clue as to the actual product

marketing is weird

I can remember lots of images from TV ads, but would struggle to remember what they were trying to sell, such is the detachment from reality of the products in the ads themselves.