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Really minor annoyances

BiG said:
When you go onto a site to research or look for something (booking. com, Amazon) and you get incessant follow up emails inviting you to look again, or offering something similar. Or the repetitive emails asking you to review everything you’ve bought or every accommodation you stayed in.
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I bought a lawnmower a few months back. Amazon has bombarded me with lawnmowers since. Do they really think im already in the market for a second one?

I mean if it was trimmers, hedge cutters or some other gardening tool Id get it. But who is impulse purchasing a second lawnmower only weeks after buying one?
 

Old, or technologically illiterate people who create new accounts for apps when they a) forget their password, or b) get a new phone.

My old man is on his 5th Instagram account. My Mum regularly messages my son on 2 different FB accounts, depending on which device she's using...
 
People who go to concerts who queue for 14 hours to get a place in standing at the front and spend no time eating/drinking then faint when the concert starts thereby making their 14 hour queue completely worthless
 
Council announcing £20m funding for a specific area within their responsibility and the rest of the council tax-paying residents can fuck off because reasons.
 
Photoshoots, press pictures etc where a new business opens and the business owners/staff are posing back to back with their arms folded.
 
Trying to do something for my parents on .Gov website.

Can't prove their identity without a driving licence or passport. Stepdad's driving licence has expired cos he's got glaucoma, Mam has never had one. Both passports have expired cos they've got nae intention to go abroad again.
 
Local councillors looking miserable in an ill fitting raincoat on a sunny day standing by a pothole or some signs of antisocial behaviour
 
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