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Really minor annoyances


DaveH said:
The way my brain can see something out of the corner of my eye and pick completely the wrong word before I read it properly. Like this post, I was thinking is Scarborough really that bad?
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Love a nice runny poached egg on Scarborough me.
 
Gothdad said:
True. I took mine to Halfords, as I thought it was not worth my time and effort to save £18. It took 2 of them 25 minutes and at one stage one of them had their hand stuck and I, reluctantly as I was paying, had to give them a hand to free it. This was a 15 year old car too, bugger trying it on a modern car and potentially dropping a part which would cost 100's of £'s to replace. They had to take the battery out and the battery tray in the end, put it all back together and found the bulb wasn't sitting in the housing correctly when I put the light on to test it and then do it all again.
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This. Once had to take mine to Halfords as I would have had to remove part of the engine to access the bulb holder. Not a chance. Like you, it took a couple of blokes a fair amount of time to do it. Bloody ridiculous and totally unnecessary.
jjarra_mackem said:
Radio edits of songs. I get blocking out certain words. But "bitch" doesn't seem overly offensive
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Bloody radio edits - cuts off Buck`s solo in Blue Oyster Cult`s `(Don`t Fear) The Reaper', the best part of the song and quite possibly one of the finest pieces of guitar work ever, and the radio edit cuts it out 😤
 
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There’s a video that I think was linked on here showing the DEvolution of car headlight bulb replacement, going from years ago when it was literally a two minute job costing a few quid to recently where it needs a complete strip down of that corner of the car and a replacement part that costs hundreds.

I mean I know the answer to 99 percent of the world’s question is ‘money’ but it’s places like Halford’s or other mechanics who get the money here, not the car maker, so what’s the incentive in making a previously easy job ridiculously difficult? Who signs off on those designs that make life so much harder for the consumer? What’s the selling point here?

I love how my Jeep is largely mechanical but now they try to make them into a luxury SUV with loads of elecrronics rammed in which to me is at odds with the history as a beefy Tonka Toy. I don’t mind hand cranking windows and there’s a lot less to go wrong.
 
Mousehold Mackem said:
£400 for a headlight unit in the Mrs' Toyota. Can't replace the LEDs or the controller unit on its own so the whole thing has to be done. Scandalous.
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Forward collision sensor on the Volvo I drive packed in early last year (at that point the car wasn't even a year old).

Turned out the entire front windscreen had to be replaced as the sensor sits within a plastic housing compartment just behind the rear view mirror which is attached to the windscreen.

Mental.

Luckily a work lease car so didn't cost me / wouldn't have anyway with Volvos warranty even if it was owned by me.
Hawkings Boots said:
When you put a new screen protector on your phone and there's a speck of dust underneath
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Every ****ing time.
 
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Please if you ever happen to meet someone whose job is part of the process of putting adverts on television, can you talk for a minute at a very quiet volume then bellow at the top of your voice at them "DO YOU WANT TO BUY THIS? DO YOU WANT TO BUY THAT? WHAT ABOUT THIS THEN? OR THIS THING MAYBE? EH? EH?" then back to a really quiet volume for the rest of the conversation
 
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