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Really minor annoyances


During an early morning look through the headlines on news websites I encountered this sentence:

“The Labour government has pledged to scrap the Vagrancy Act which has criminalised rough sleeping since the Napoleonic Wars in 2026”

It kinda confused me about when the Napoleonic Wars happened… or are going to happen… and annoyed me in a minor way.
 
BiG said:
During an early morning look through the headlines on news websites I encountered this sentence:

“The Labour government has pledged to scrap the Vagrancy Act which has criminalised rough sleeping since the Napoleonic Wars in 2026”

It kinda confused me about when the Napoleonic Wars happened… or are going to happen… and annoyed me in a minor way.
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I’m not entirely sure that date is correct for the Napoleonic wars. Well spotted.

That sentence offends my eye. I would re-write it but I can’t be bothered. I mean what’s the point.
 
BiG said:
During an early morning look through the headlines on news websites I encountered this sentence:

“The Labour government has pledged to scrap the Vagrancy Act which has criminalised rough sleeping since the Napoleonic Wars in 2026”

It kinda confused me about when the Napoleonic Wars happened… or are going to happen… and annoyed me in a minor way.
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Been listening to The Real Dicators podcast (as recommended on here) & discovered old Napoleon was of Italian heritage & the correct pronunciation of his name should sound like the General from "Allo, Allo" I can now only hear it in my head like this...

..."wat a mistaker to make!"
 
Teams "helpful" feature that takes certain things you type and substitutes them for emojis, without the option to undo or right click and say no I really did want to say that. I had a very legitimate reason for wanting to say '(linux)' in the middle of something I was typing about a serious issue, but Teams insisted I just wanted to put a little picture of a dancing penguin in the middle of my sentence.
 
Becs said:
I was just sorting the washing out and noticed on my daughter's leavers hoody, her name doesn't have a capital letter.
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I'm am confused now. Does your daughter's name not have a capital letter in real life, but does on the hoody? It is a disc race either way.
 
MackneyHackem said:
Phone number spoofing.

Had a few calls lately from strangers who believed they were returning a missed call from me but I hadn't called them. I had no idea this was a thing.
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This is a major annoyance. It is one of those features where you are left wondering what they were thinking.

Certain numbers can carry a text based ID (I believe if they pay for it), so that even if you do not know the number it can appear on your phone as something like "AA Emergency Response". Really helpful when you are sat by the roadside.

But there is no checking and governance behind it. A really basic one that should be in place is checking to see if that ID is the same format as a phone number, or if that name matches a well known or registered elsewhere name. So you can appear to be from the SAFC ticket office.

Or if a scammer is on the ball, and spots a social media post from someone saying they are sitting at the roadside, just fake a call from the AA and prey on their vulnerability.
 
DaveH said:
Teams "helpful" feature that takes certain things you type and substitutes them for emojis, without the option to undo or right click and say no I really did want to say that. I had a very legitimate reason for wanting to say '(linux)' in the middle of something I was typing about a serious issue, but Teams insisted I just wanted to put a little picture of a dancing penguin in the middle of my sentence.
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I don't know how it happened, but I was on a video call with one of my daughters teachers on parents night. She was talking about exam pressures and all of a sudden, a thumbs down emoji came out of her mouth and slowly floated up the screen. Thankfully we didn't have our camera on as I was creased and couldn't keep a straight face.
 
Needing to give a rating for any online service nowadays. “Oooo… you clicked a button. How would you rate the experience??”

Bonus point… people who explicitly ask you to leave a 5 star review!
 
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