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Really minor annoyances


Steel_Straight said:
Not just cyclists, either - in my local area there are loads of teenagers riding electric scooters on the roads in the dark. Dark clothes, no helmet, no lights, and sometimes on a really busy dual carriageway, near where I live. It's only a matter of time before one of them's seriously injured or killed. It worries me every time I see one of them.
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The parents want their arses kicking in the 1st place for buying their kids these electric scooters.
They are illegal to ride on the roads and pavements.
 
Hawkings Boots said:
The amount of cyclists that seem to have sprung up that cycle on the road, in the dark, in dark clothes and with no lights on their bikes (yes I have just nearly killed one)
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Can we describe them as pricks on bikes, rather the cyclists?

As someone who commutes to work on a bike in the dark im lit-up like a Christmas tree and still appear invisible to the white van driver who mowed me down in Durham last year before driving off without stopping (hit & run).
 
I might’ve mentioned this one before but: the speed at which you get updates available or required for apps on your phone. I don’t even have that many, but I seem to constantly have the little red numbered icon telling me ‘x’ updates are available. I sorted a batch of around 20+ last night and this morning it says I have 6 updates available.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
I might’ve mentioned this one before but: the speed at which you get updates available or required for apps on your phone. I don’t even have that many, but I seem to constantly have the little red numbered icon telling me ‘x’ updates are available. I sorted a batch of around 20+ last night and this morning it says I have 6 updates available.
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Aye this one narks me anarl.
 
For heroic licence rebels and de-funders: Sounds not knowing I’m already logged into iPlayer and requiring a log-in when I could watch it on iPlayer anyway. Three clicks instead of one. One of these days I’ll have a rage-induced heart attack cos of the audacity and the two extra clicks. Saying click instead of tap.
Towels that randomly decide to jump off bathroom door hooks when they’ve been acceptably secure previously.
Devices that change screen orientation with a one second deviation from flat but then have to be held properly vertical and shook about a bit to re-orientate.
People who use orient instead of orientate.
 
pinewaves1868 said:
For heroic licence rebels and de-funders: Sounds not knowing I’m already logged into iPlayer and requiring a log-in when I could watch it on iPlayer anyway. Three clicks instead of one. One of these days I’ll have a rage-induced heart attack cos of the audacity and the two extra clicks. Saying click instead of tap.
Towels that randomly decide to jump off bathroom door hooks when they’ve been acceptably secure previously.
Devices that change screen orientation with a one second deviation from flat but then have to be held properly vertical and shook about a bit to re-orientate.
People who use orient instead of orientate.
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If you are going to have a "rage induced heart attack" I think that it is more than a minor annoyance!
 
Car manuals. They chuck thousands of identical cars off the production line, yet can only produce a manual that covers all models listing features you don't have.

Then they are filled with more safety warnings than any useful text. In mine there are 9 warnings and notes about parking sensors in general. Then they are repeated immediately in the front sensor section and again for the rear sensors.
 
DaveH said:
Car manuals. They chuck thousands of identical cars off the production line, yet can only produce a manual that covers all models listing features you don't have.

Then they are filled with more safety warnings than any useful text. In mine there are 9 warnings and notes about parking sensors in general. Then they are repeated immediately in the front sensor section and again for the rear sensors.
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Lucky to even get a manual these days

Ours is on an app that is ridiculous to navigate
 
Hawkings Boots said:
Lucky to even get a manual these days

Ours is on an app that is ridiculous to navigate
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In theory an app should be better. Put the registration of your car in, it knows the exact model and factory features and then it should only tell you things about your car. But car companies don't seem to do software well.

I was on a train for a while the other day so sat with the manual, went through and made a note of all the things to check out. My car seems to be the most basic model (bought second hand in a hurry when mine died), and I don't think it has any of the 30 things I listed!
 
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