Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[classic33]

I've just been to my local bank to pay in a very large cheque - as it's well above the online limit - and they had a sign up stating cash only at the counter. It was very busy but with only one counter staffed, the other two staff standing there. People queueing, etc. and others waiting.

It had to go into their machine, which I wasn't too amused about.

The branch which was slightly further away closed recently, where the staff were much friendler.

Why couldn't the staff - who were standing about - simply cover an additional counter?

Thought cheques were all the same size nowadays. Or was it the one used for the photo you had.

LBG?

 

[Conrad_K]

Tomatoes that don't taste of anything. The growers must know this when they plant that particular variety.

Those came out in the mid-1970s. They were bred for thicker shells so they could be harvested by mechanical pickers instead of by hand.

I liked them; there was some "tomato" there besides a bag of acidic water and seeds. My parents hated them, and planted a garden so they could have "real" tomatoes, at least when they were in season. Frankly, as far as I could tell they tasted exactly the same.

I don't know... maybe it's age-related, but as of five years or so ago, tomatoes have almost no taste at all. To the point where it's not really worth slicing them up to put on stuff. On the other hand, canned tomato sauce tastes just like it always did, sharp and acidic.

 

[Conrad_K]

people that interrupt with PARDON!?
when you're only 1.2seconds into a sentence.

[waves hand] That would be me.

"Gubba frootle bad noise coming from yapootie..."

Letting them ramble on is useless since I have no idea what they're talking about. If I let them wind down to a stop and ask them to repeat themselves, 4 times out of 5 they've already forgotten what they said, and the rest of the time they'll only repeat one or two words out of an entire monologue, "from yopootie. Yapootie. From." Usually while getting angry.

Yes, I'm hard-of-hearing, but most people slaughter pronunciation like they just got a tongue piercing. I'm to the point where I don't put forth much effort into trying to turn slobbergobble into intelligible English. If it's not worth their time to pronounce the words properly, why should I be tasked with trying to interpret their bleating?

 

[Chief Broom]

Outdoor plastic flowers ......which will eventually end up in a landfill somewhere. Do people really need the saccharine eye candy of plastic petunias...maybe its the internet disease of demanding sensory gratification of some kind [and an aversion to quiet repose] . I like the winters starkness it makes a contrast with spring flowers appearing.

 

[Dadam]

Outdoor plastic flowers ......which will eventually end up in a landfill somewhere. Do people really need the saccharine eye candy of plastic petunias...maybe its the internet disease of demanding sensory gratification of some kind [and an aversion to quiet repose] . I like the winters starkness it makes a contrast with spring flowers appearing.

Same with astroturf, I hate it. I'm the world's laziest gardener but I can manage to run a mower over mine every so often during spring and summer.

 

[raleighnut]

We've got 'Winter Flowering Pansies' in the trough below the window for a bit of colour.

 

[Jameshow]

The head of my usb cig adapter has come off and disappeared down the inside of the transmission tunnel! 😭

 

[Electric_Andy]

Same with astroturf, I hate it. I'm the world's laziest gardener but I can manage to run a mower over mine every so often during spring and summer.

When we moved in to our house, the previous owner had fake grass on the upper decking. It absorbed everything that came out of the dog. So we tore it up, only to find untreated decking boards underneath which will soon need replacing

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Outdoor plastic flowers ......which will eventually end up in a landfill somewhere. Do people really need the saccharine eye candy of plastic petunias...maybe its the internet disease of demanding sensory gratification of some kind [and an aversion to quiet repose] . I like the winters starkness it makes a contrast with spring flowers appearing.

Indeed. There's a pub near me which has plastic wisteria all over the front. It's there flowering in the midst of winter, looks dreadful (as well as no scent obs). I won't go to that pub as a point of principle. That'll teach 'em.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Same with astroturf, I hate it. I'm the world's laziest gardener but I can manage to run a mower over mine every so often during spring and summer.

Yup - with you on that one

especially the cheap versions they just look like plastic - when I pick the kids up from school I sometimes walk past a house with the cheapest most plastic looking "lawn" - apparently fitted by someone with fitting skills that make me look like a highly skilled worked with high standards and OCD
and I am rubbish!!!

Next door had a very expensive designer back garden done including designer fencing and a big hot tub etc etc
(them seemed to come out of the pandemic very well - for some reason???)
and the lawn was replaced with plastic grass - so presumably the expensive version
still looks like plastic!!

 

[Electric_Andy]

Next door had a very expensive designer back garden done including designer fencing and a big hot tub etc etc
(them seemed to come out of the pandemic very well - for some reason???)
and the lawn was replaced with plastic grass - so presumably the expensive version
still looks like plastic!!

Same with the previous owners of our house. Everything was ultra modern and expensive but is actually worse as soon as it's not "new" anymore.

Most things in the house were slimline/ultra modern/bells and whistles. We've had to replace most of it. A Combi oven which was far too complicated we never used it. A microwave that continues to beep for 3 minutes once it's finished. Waterfall taps in the bathroom which are only good for banging your head/legs on, and have started leaking, but contain no servicable parts.

 

[Beebo]

Same with the previous owners of our house. Everything was ultra modern and expensive but is actually worse as soon as it's not "new" anymore.

Most things in the house were slimline/ultra modern/bells and whistles. We've had to replace most of it. A Combi oven which was far too complicated we never used it. A microwave that continues to beep for 3 minutes once it's finished. Waterfall taps in the bathroom which are only good for banging your head/legs on, and have started leaking, but contain no servicable parts.

Anything too fashionable or over complicated is always a problem with household fittings.
Because not many people replace kitchens and bathrooms more than once every 15 years.
Best to stick with a classic look with basic good quality appliances.
Same with audio visual stuff. Hard wired sound system and built in TVs are going to be obsolete in 5 years.

 

[raleighnut]

Hard wired sound system

I expect my QUAD amps to still be running in another 50 years with servicing from their own engineers.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I was a kid if the element on the kettle blew then you went to the hardware shop "on the Cross and got a new one - they were all the same

and you took the old one out and put the new one in

and it worked again for another few years

so - when I had a house of my own I got a kettle and after several years it stopped working

so I dismantled it and tried to take the element out - but it was welded into the plastic frame
I got another the same and then could break the old broken one to extract any useful spare parts
nothing could be extracted in a what where it could be used again
everything was welded in

When I have had something that could be fixed - it normally costs more than the costs of a new one
e.g. the collecting bag off the Bosch leaf blower/vacuum got nibbled by mice one winter
a new one is easy to find - but costs most of the price of a replacement machine - just for the bag!!!


one could almost think that they don;t want to make spares and just want to make the whole units

 

[mustang1]

Having the clock displayed everywhere. Right now I'm looking at Google Chromecast, suc lovely photos, and a friggin clock. Along with some weather info.

Why the heck do they feel like people always want to know the time? And the weather? And on windows, it tells me stock market info, and various items of news. Just bugger off. Adding more features does not make your product better.

Numpties.