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Really minor annoyances


Stubborn old bloke down the street, must put his wheelie bin out the night before on the exact same spot without fail.

It doesn’t matter that his drive is on a slope so half on the drive and half on the path means the bin is very wobbly. It doesn’t matter that it is blowing a gale.

Every time there is strong wind on a Sunday night, I’m usually out early on the Monday morning with the dog and spend 10 minutes picking up his rubbish from all over the street. My drive was plastered with soggy copies of the Daily Mail today.
 
marsey said:
Having to take your phone out of your pocket to see what the song/artist is when you hear one you like on the platform of your choice.

I did suggest to Spotify that it would be a handy feature to have the option of an automated voice telling you before each track; bastards didn't listen.
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"Hey siri - what song is this?"

Problem solved.
 
marsey said:
Having to take your phone out of your pocket to see what the song/artist is when you hear one you like on the platform of your choice.

I did suggest to Spotify that it would be a handy feature to have the option of an automated voice telling you before each track; bastards didn't listen.
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If you have a Pixel phone it has a feature where it automatically saves the name of any music you hear

Also people who floor it through average speed camera zones but then slam the brakes on when they reach a camera - er that's not how an average works
 
BiG said:
The expression ‘man flu’.

It’s mildly annoying when I say I have a cold, or even when I don’t say I have a cold and I just sound a bit bunged up or I cough or something, and somebody says ‘man flu’. And sometimes it’s not even a woman saying it.

No. I’ve got a cold. I’m not making a big deal out of it. You are by insinuating that I am.
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This gets my goat too.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
Web pages that jump up or down, usually to populate an ad, causing you to click on something you hadn’t intended to. It’s even happening on Twitter now, I just clicked on a one about travelling the rockies in Canada by rail.
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Yes this.

It seems to happen a lot with news articles. I think because there is so much click bait between the lines of news.
 
DaveH said:
Yes this.

It seems to happen a lot with news articles. I think because there is so much click bait between the lines of news.
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Regional news websites are by far the worst, to the point I never bother reading anything in them anymore. I actually quite like adverts as long as they’re tailored to my interests and are placed sensibly without causing issues like I describe. I actually buy a lot of my clothes through seeing them come up in adverts.
 
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DaveH said:
Similar to that, grief debris.

I completely understand that someone wants to remember a loved one by taping a bunch of flowers to a bench or some other feature the deceased loved. But after two weeks, you have some manky plastic full of brown sludge. I don't want to be remembered like that when I'm gone. Come back and clean it up.

Someone made a roadside shrine near me, and I get the impression it might have been someone young died on the road. They made a white cross and put a lot of things around it. If it helps them then great, but now it has all decayed, it looks like someone has been fly tipping.
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There’s a really tatty shrine on the new road linking the Northern Spire bridge to the City Centre.

It’s for a young lass who died after a night out until daft o’clock in the city centre and she’d got in her mate’s car (who been drinking).

Sad and a tragedy but the shrine looks really tatty.
 
Android phones unable to have certain contacts allowed to ring you and it comes through loud even though the phone is set to silent or vibrate. Great feature if you want to goto bed and not be pestered with noise UNLESS its a relative in need of help etc. This is suppisedly a standard feature on Iphones but not there on android. As much questioning of this and possible answering on google reveals nothing.
 
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Cheese n Ipa said:
Android phones unable to have certain contacts allowed to ring you and it comes through loud even though the phone is set to silent or vibrate. Great feature if you want to goto bed and not be pestered with noise UNLESS its a relative in need of help etc. This is suppisedly a standard feature on Iphones but not there on android. As much questioning of this and possible answering on google reveals nothing.
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Have you tried Do Not Disturb settings? It looks like you can set your phone to DND but add specific contacts to be allowed to get through
 
Cockney Mackem said:
Have you tried Do Not Disturb settings? It looks like you can set your phone to DND but add specific contacts to be allowed to get through
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Doesn't work. It makes it appear as though it does but tried getting selected contacts to ring me to try it out just did nowt. Could see the phone light up and name showing but no loud ringing. If anyone knows the workaround tell Android and the world.
 
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DaveH said:
Stubborn old bloke down the street, must put his wheelie bin out the night before on the exact same spot without fail.

It doesn’t matter that his drive is on a slope so half on the drive and half on the path means the bin is very wobbly. It doesn’t matter that it is blowing a gale.

Every time there is strong wind on a Sunday night, I’m usually out early on the Monday morning with the dog and spend 10 minutes picking up his rubbish from all over the street. My drive was plastered with soggy copies of the Daily Mail today.
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My neighbour does that. They walk the dog about 5pm when he gets in from work and she puts the bin out when they get back, even if bad weather is forecast.

She takes the dog out every morning at 7am, so there's no reason why she can't put it out first thing in the morning.
 
Wife has started cutting bananas in two . Eats half and put other half in the fruit bowl for later.. doe amy head in seeing half a banana in the fruit bowl with the open end going brown.. fruit bowl looking stark at moment
 

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iPads do not have a calculator. All mobile devices pretty much evolved from a calculator, but in Apple land, no. You can install one of many calculator apps, but they are all either paid for or make you sit and watch 3 adverts before you can do your quick calculation. It is easier to get the Casio I have had since my A-levels.
 
Cheese n Ipa said:
Doesn't work. It makes it appear as though it does but tried getting selected contacts to ring me to try it out just did nowt. Could see the phone light up and name showing but no loud ringing. If anyone knows the workaround tell Android and the world.
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Silly question but did you try having your ringtone on loud but phone on Do Not Disturb when people tried to ring?
 
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