Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Alex321]

What is it with this current fashion for metal zips all of a sudden? They catch & snag, and won't run smoothly, and I can't even see that they're cheaper than plastic when each tooth has to be sewn on separately.

They are generally much more durable than plastic. And if they are catching and snagging more, then they are poor quality (which many of the "fashionable" one will be).

 

[Accy cyclist]

What is it with this current fashion for metal zips all of a sudden? They catch & snag, and won't run smoothly, and I can't even see that they're cheaper than plastic when each tooth has to be sewn on separately.

I buy Cordings trousers quite often. You can have them with a button fly, or a zip fly which costs
£25 more. I would've thought they'd charge more for the button fly as it's much safer to use and there's nothing to break or malfunction like some zips do.

 

[Alex321]

I buy Cordings trousers quite often. You can have them with a button fly, or a zip fly which costs
£25 more. I would've thought they'd charge more for the button fly as it's much safer to use and there's nothing to break or malfunction like some zips do.

They don't charge according to what the user may see as better, they charge according to their costs.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just heard the narrator of a video I'm watching say "during the world war one". Tut! tut! 🧐 It's either the first world war, or during (no the required) world war one. 🧐

 

[presta]

They are generally much more durable than plastic. And if they are catching and snagging more, then they are poor quality (which many of the "fashionable" one will be).

The only bits of zips I've ever had wear out are the runners, not the meshing halves.

They don't charge according to what the user may see as better, they charge according to their costs.

Cost is the lower limit to selling price, the upper limit is demand and competition.

 

[MontyVeda]

my own stupidity.

 

[ColinJ]

Maybe not trivial, but certainly very annoying... Somebody upstream of Todmorden has either dumped or leaked vast amounts of something nasty into the river Calder because today it was a bright orangey brown!

 

[classic33]

Maybe not trivial, but certainly very annoying... Somebody upstream of Todmorden has either dumped or leaked vast amounts of something nasty into the river Calder because today it was a bright orangey brown!

Is it a recurrence of the "Tomato Soup leak"?

 

[ColinJ]

Is it a recurrence of the "Tomato Soup leak"?

Ah, well spotted! Yes, that's it.

I didn't know about the old mines.

 

[classic33]

Ah, well spotted! Yes, that's it.

I didn't know about the old mines.

There's a few up at the Blake Dean end of Hardcastle Crags.

 

[mustang1]

The speech text that shows up on YouTube Shorts that you can't turn off. So distracting.

 

[slow horse]

The speech text that shows up on YouTube Shorts that you can't turn off. So distracting.

The ones where they HIGHLIGHT every WORD as it's being SPOKEN really do my head IN.

 

[Beebo]

The ones where they HIGHLIGHT every WORD as it's being SPOKEN really do my head IN.

And it’s always right in the middle of the video. Why?

 

[MontyVeda]

The speech text that shows up on YouTube Shorts that you can't turn off. So distracting.

I just turn off YT Shorts for 30 days the moment they appear. The few I have watched haven't been worth watching.

 

[MontyVeda]

When did R4 start airing The Archers on a Saturday afternoon? It's fecking infuriating!