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Really minor annoyances

Having a meal planned using all the stuff in the fridge then finding one key ingredient has expired beyond use . Seems like false economy to go out to buy it again just to have a meal that was supposed to use old stuff .
 

S.S.R.. said:
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.
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It is crazy that the only really recognised form of ID, people do not need to have. My daughter has a provisional driving licence. No intention to learn to drive at the minute, but the government has to rely on the DVLA to manage official ID for the country.

Yet when the government announced the intention to have a national ID scheme, everyone got up in arms about it, screaming 1984 come true.
 
Some TV Channel idents.

Currently, the one with a lass videoing a line of other lasses, dancing, on a railway station platform.
 
VenisonsMullet said:
People who start Teams meetings 1-2 mins early and either a) expect everyone else to join early, or b) just sit there in an empty room for 2 mins. Why?
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To show they are more professional than other people.

My annoyance from the morning, clocks that show approximate time.

My wife got in first changing the clocks after they went forward. She looks at her watch, thinks "it is about 10 to" and then goes around setting all the clocks in the house at round about that time, not accounting for the time it took her to get round, and hey if you are bored, 13 minutes to is just as good. We have a clock on each side of our bed, and those are four minutes apart. It is a nightmare when you need to get a train. You either rush out and get to the station well early or are relaxing until you look at a correct clock and have to get your skates on. My job for the night, make all the clocks tell THE time - that is what they are for.
 
VenisonsMullet said:
People who start Teams meetings 1-2 mins early and either a) expect everyone else to join early, or b) just sit there in an empty room for 2 mins. Why?
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This.

Also, people who go to physical meetings and turn up a quarter of an hour early.

My job is office and home based, however often have on site meetings or visits. The amount of people who turn up to site 20 minutes early and pace about outside waiting, rather than just going in themselves or actually turning up on the actual times does my head in.
BiG said:
Some TV Channel idents.

Currently, the one with a lass videoing a line of other lasses, dancing, on a railway station platform.
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Idents seemed simple, yet effective and worked fine back in the day.

Last ten years they all try too hard with them.

Channel 4 ones especially do my head in.
 
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DaveH said:
To show they are more professional than other people.

My annoyance from the morning, clocks that show approximate time.

My wife got in first changing the clocks after they went forward. She looks at her watch, thinks "it is about 10 to" and then goes around setting all the clocks in the house at round about that time, not accounting for the time it took her to get round, and hey if you are bored, 13 minutes to is just as good. We have a clock on each side of our bed, and those are four minutes apart. It is a nightmare when you need to get a train. You either rush out and get to the station well early or are relaxing until you look at a correct clock and have to get your skates on. My job for the night, make all the clocks tell THE time - that is what they are for.
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clocks that don't tell the exact time do my napper in.
 
VenisonsMullet said:
People who start Teams meetings 1-2 mins early and either a) expect everyone else to join early, or b) just sit there in an empty room for 2 mins. Why?
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Yes. Some join early for the small talk with like-minded bellends or hope the most senior person/chair will be in so they can do a bit sucking up

Made that mistake before. And sat dying inside before the damn thing has even started properly
 
People in instructional videos saying we, when describing tasks they are doing solo. Bonus idiocy points for saying 'we're going in with' before adding an ingredient in a cooking video. We aren't going in with the salt; there's still only one of you, you're staying where you are, and you can't fit in the pan with the salt anyway.
VenisonsMullet said:
People who start Teams meetings 1-2 mins early and either a) expect everyone else to join early, or b) just sit there in an empty room for 2 mins. Why?
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That's once in a while for me. Usually I have to watch somebody start late, then fuck around with headphones before watching someone even less technical from IT trying to fix them. Then I have to begrudgingly say it's ok when they apologise for the meeting overrunning by 30 minutes.
 
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