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Really minor annoyances

tunstallhill said:
There's quite a few films at TV shows that I can't watch or stopped watching cos of this exact reason.

I'm sure someone in the know might be able to tell us why they do it, or if it's just because I'm listening through standard TV speakers and not some fancy sound bar

Latest one was SnowPiercer , daft switch-your-brain-off series that someone recommended, couldn't get past the first episode as they dialogue was just incoherent mumbling and I refuse to have the TV blasting on a Sunday night
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Directors think they are being arty, or they are only thinking about the big cinema experience.

Similar with lighting. One series I am watching, I’m getting annoyed at, because everything happens at night. These people never sleep and everything they do is lit by a little camp fire or a dim light. Especially watching at lunch time when the room is quite light, you just see vague shapes moving about somewhere.
 

DaveH said:
Directors think they are being arty, or they are only thinking about the big cinema experience.

Similar with lighting. One series I am watching, I’m getting annoyed at, because everything happens at night. These people never sleep and everything they do is lit by a little camp fire or a dim light. Especially watching at lunch time when the room is quite light, you just see vague shapes moving about somewhere.
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You could watch it at night with the lights out, sing campfire songs and pretend you are there.
 
Outlook for mobile. If you make the mistake of forwarding an email before you reply to the original, you will NEVER in a million years be able to reply to the mail. Clever **** Outlook thinks it knows better and you want to reply to the forwarded mail you just sent, ie reply to yourself

*****. At least when they're making their mobile apps shit that's time they can't spend systematically removing or hiding the features I like in Excel
Cockney Mackem said:
Outlook for mobile. If you make the mistake of forwarding an email before you reply to the original, you will NEVER in a million years be able to reply to the mail. Clever **** Outlook thinks it knows better and you want to reply to the forwarded mail you just sent, ie reply to yourself

*****. At least when they're making their mobile apps shit that's time they can't spend systematically removing or hiding the features I like in Excel
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But also, Microsoft documents really annoy me when they embed American English as the default spelling and editing setting and try to change my perfectly good text to some f***ing moronic yankee gibberish. When you try and change this it won't let you, so fuck America and I hope they lose the war with Iran
What diarist klaxon - it's never Adrian Mole, is it
 
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Programmes/films that are advertised as "from the makers of" and quote a previously successful release, doesn't mean the new one will be any good though but?
 
My colleagues don't know how to cut and paste, so everyone screen shots things.

Dave, we need this long complex text adding to one of the systems you are an admin for, here is a screenshot. Great, I'll key in this 256 randomly generated string shall I and hope I don't make a mistake, or you could cut and paste the text.

Can you take a look at this ticket? Here is a screenshot of the ticket number.

Can you mail this person, here is a screenshot of their email address.

I don't know how many times per day I ask if someone can cut and paste the text. Never seen this working anywhere else, but everyone does it here.
 
Speed camera signs, but no speed cameras. Even more annoying when you're not from the area and everyone else is pegging it round and you look like a daftie.
 
More of a curiosity than an annoyance.

Nipping back home to fetch something, car so hot the steering wheel is boiling to the touch.

Youngish lad cycling by, wearing one of those black padded coats like they all do. Probably the hottest day of the year. Uncomfortably warm. Big chunky coat.

The younger generations are like special aren't they? Like chromosomes missing special. Surprised he didn't do a wheelie to impress strangers; which is totally a thing we'd still do after starting shaving.
 
DaveH said:
My colleagues don't know how to cut and paste, so everyone screen shots things.

Dave, we need this long complex text adding to one of the systems you are an admin for, here is a screenshot. Great, I'll key in this 256 randomly generated string shall I and hope I don't make a mistake, or you could cut and paste the text.

Can you take a look at this ticket? Here is a screenshot of the ticket number.

Can you mail this person, here is a screenshot of their email address.

I don't know how many times per day I ask if someone can cut and paste the text. Never seen this working anywhere else, but everyone does it here.
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Very similarly but totally differently, I’ve recently started some one-to-one zoom-based Spanish lessons.

The tutor sends me homework. She emails it to me as an pdf. I’ve asked her not to because at home I don’t have a pdf converter or owt and whatever she’s doing to save it as a pdf is f***ing up the formatting and there’s stray phrases all over.

My questions uncovered that she prepares it in excel, then sends it as a pdf. I then copy and paste it - thereby removing line breaks - and spend 45 minutes pasting it into word, reformatting it, putting spaces in, adding lines so I can type my answers…. etc. I don’t have a printer at home. Not printing the bugger out so I can write in it.

So I said ‘look, can you just either type, or copy and paste, the whole thing (it’s not screeds of text, just a few phrases to translate or conjugate or grammatically convert) and stick it in the body of the email you’re sending me anyway. I don’t need the pdf.

She said yeah. Then didn’t.

I was annoyed.
TJlivesaway said:
Speed camera signs, but no speed cameras. Even more annoying when you're not from the area and everyone else is pegging it round and you look like a daftie.
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Even worse, when the signs say ‘average speed cameras’. I mean, why don’t they use the good ones.
 
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A non-fault one.

When you go down a slip road, get up to a decent speed, then come alongside a big lorry doing 60. There is not enough space to get past, so you have to slow down again, slot in beside, then pick up your speed to get past.
 
Big Jeff said:
My shed.

It’s got too much stuff in. No matter how much I throw out the next time I look in its full again
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I'm like that with scrap wood, all off cuts from various bits of DIY. Or you need 3 lengths so it is far better value to buy a pack of 4 or 6. It usually means if I need one length at short notice, I have some handy. But until then I have a large range of all sizes to store, plus off cuts of sheet material. That is a bugger to store. Unless it is flat or completely upright, it bends. Flat it covers massive amounts of floor. Upright then you have to sort through it all to find the bit you think that you might have, but probably have not.

I need it all to disappear and not take up space, until the point when I need it and then come back somehow.
 
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