Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Blinge]

I'm sorry to hear that Seraph, that sucks man.

[BulletMagnet]

Yeah, best of luck to you, Seraph.

[Mischief Maker]

Never go into business with friends, and never make friends in business.

[neorichieb1971]

Helpdesk person - Hi, helpdesk can I help you?
Woman - Hi there, I just received a brand new PC, whats that supposed to be for?
Helpdesk person - You know all those things you usually complain about?
Woman - Yes
Helpdesk person - Well, it will sort out at least half of them.

There are people who complain and complain, and when they get what they want, they complain still.

[BulletMagnet]

Finding that one of your cats has chewed through an audio cable, rendering your console games soundless. Not knowing which one did it.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

That's like saying a moisture farming game is "the Luke Skywalker experience."

there are moisture farming games?!

[Xyga]

nutscaping

[Ed Oscuro]

Let's go find a cordless leaf blower!

*searching online, seeing price ranges around $70*
*visit online store page, "insert ZIP to see prices*

Time to go to the store now!

Short old guy spotted! "Hi, could you direct me to electric cordless leaf blowers?"
"...Electric?"
"...leaf blowers?"
"Aisle five."
Which is, of course, just the electrician's isle. Two more employees later, I find where the blowers are all hiding out.
Cheapest cordless electric model $150. Damn, that's basically $110 for a battery pack. Maybe prices will come down next year.

Ah well, mower mulches 'em anyway. Just too damn wasteful and time-consuming, though, and you can't really work right next to a mower going by.

[Stormwatch]

Emoji. I hate that shit. If you use them, I will think of you as unrefined and intellectually limited.

[lilmanjs]

Emoji. I hate that shit. If you use them, I will think of you as unrefined and intellectually limited.

Even worse, ESPN (A television sports network) has a lady who's sole job is to go through and describe the entire week in the NFL using only Emoji. That is the dumbest thing I've ever seen on tv.

[null1024]

Been playing Pokemon Showdown lately. Mostly fun.
There's nothing quite as annoying as just how many people disconnect asap. I play Doubles OU, and all I want is a nice, decent match to test my team with.
A bunch of them don't forfeit properly [closing the browser instead of the fight tab], so I have to wait for the timer to end before starting another match -- very rarely, some people will reconnect before the timer ends and then I'll get tied up in two timed fights, and turns in doubles take forever.

also, really salty scrubs in the chat, fuck those guys [thank you ignore]

[neorichieb1971]

Lets talk about toilet seats for a moment.

I'm no expert on toilet seats, I've never found an expert about toilet seats. But here goes!!!


Is it just my luck or is it just plain obvious that toilets seats suck major ass? You have the ones that split, you have the ones that won't stay up (ever run into the bathroom holding something and you just gotta go, undo your zipper and have to hold your privates in place only to find the toilet seat was balancing on a hair and drops in mid flight?). Then you got the wonky ones.. Those awful wonky ones that whilst sitting on them, they move slightly to the side and BANG! Wakes up the whole neighbourhood as the seats clangs to the porcelain. You balance it again and BANG again. Then you have the replacement problem. You have to take your old seat to the store just so you can align the holes with the new seat your buying.. Because unlike A4 sheets, the holes are sometimes in random places. Thats if you can get the old seat off in the first place. The older types have metal screws that haven't seen a drop of WD40 in their lives and you haven't gotten on your hands and knees to look behind there in years. The newer plastic type screws warp.

So what causes this? Fat people? Do people do shuffle dances as the excrement makes its way down the passage? Why can't we have a standardized easy fit toilet seat that just works for years and years? A toilet seat should be hydraulically clamped to the porcelain and it should be seated in a way that it fixes at the front in ridges so you cannot move it left and right. It should have that mode like kitchen drawers have where just before it shuts it slows down so that it doesn't bang if you drop it.

Damn it, I've just reinvented the toilet seat and nobody gives a shit.

[Blinge]

hey man, shut happens. HURRRR

Let's go back to holes in the floor I say.. apparently it's better for you.

[Specineff]

Those f***ing annoyingly cute kids who just don't shut up on the bus. Give them a freaking lollipop, people. The 500th time they're saying "bye-bye" to people as they get off is enough to make anyone want to grab your annoying little rat offspring and snap their neck after body-slamming them face-first against the cold metal floor.

[KennyMan666]

Bigger than a little, but my freezer apparently decided to die today. And of course that was on a day I had gone shopping. At least I have a friend who lives like 500m from me, so I could call her up and got to stash stuff there. I can only pray that I can get it fixed before the weekend, but to be quite honest, I don't exactly count on it. Making the phonecall first thing in the morning.

[Durandal]

I wish there were more wash-out toilets like this.
The only wash-out toilet I have ever seen is in my house, but I can't get used to any other type of toilet. How do people even deal with the splashback? Sure, if you're unlucky and it doesn't completely flush down the toilet you have to push it in with a toilet brush, but I still think the pros outweigh the cons here.

[mamboFoxtrot]

Assembling a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle, only to find out at the end that you only have 999 pieces...

[BIL]

People ostentatiously humming, cooing and generally colour-commentating themselves to nobody in particular, in library within earshot. >_<

also, unrelated, a perennial torment

YOUPRON GRANNY ADS >__<

BITCH GOT A PENSION, SHE DON'T NEED THE MONEY

*your ಠ_ಠ but YEEE THIS BE HAWT *telephone* FUCK Hello? *boing* FUCK NAWWW

[soprano1]

Crapping forums with trolling and pointless crap to prove a point.

[Lord Satori]

When wikipedia redirects to a completely irrelevant page.

[emphatic]

Listening to a long DJ mix, taking a break and when you open up your phone to continue listening, it starts from the beginning.

Also, when notifications of apps alter the volume on your phone and you can't get it back without juggling all possible apps to find the guilty one.

[Xyga]

^ made me remember:

Apps that decide to output sound to the phone's speaker even though the headset is plugged in.

[MintyTheCat]

All these damnable, angry little shits gushing over games online as their lives depended on them. All a bit too cultish, freaky and scary.

I find these types walking around talking about nothing other than "CIB" and it bores me to tears no end. I find that none of them are any good at playing actual games and most shit themselves at the prospect of taking on a Shmup and actually 1CCing it.

I yearn for simpler, pre-YT times, when you could simply just get on with it without all the mindless dribble

[Xyga]

The internet rapidly getting filled with Star Wars VII spoilers, it's almost a challenge to avoid them.

[Ed Oscuro]

Another year goes by
But not without another full day waiting on hold with the healthcare marketplace
hung up after literally 2 hours on one hold session (that call was nearly 3 hours)

shout out to our fearless representatives in washington trying to make it even better, like that fucker Rubio

Thank god for this call music. Random maniac pounding on piano keys (it's the same one from last year!) that goes quiet at moments, and when you lift it back to your ear to make sure you're still on...BANG

The website is quite good now, but too bad you can fuck yourself over by using it.

[Rob]

Another year goes by
But not without another full day waiting on hold with the healthcare marketplace
hung up after literally 2 hours on one hold session (that call was nearly 3 hours)

omg, I didn't even bother. Bring on the fine for being free and hours richer.

[Ed Oscuro]

Yeah, for most healthy people that's going to be the more price-effective choice to make.

Phew, I managed to get back on in roughly the time estimated, and got a supervisor who knew the Secret Formula that the others didn't know about yet.

Basically, this year the date extension for late applications means that people who are trying to clear up some issues (like being enrolled in two plans due to the old plan trying to "auto-enroll" you again) will have to wait a while for the system backlog to clear out. But thanks to getting the right information through this time, it's pretty painless now that it works.

Actually, this is much better than it was last time (well, aside from the plans having their price inflate this year). The major thing that needs to be fixed is the healthcare marketplace website needs to actually show a list of your applications, so you can easily check whether you've been doubly enrolled. I'd have no problem telling my old insurers where they could stick their bill, but I wouldn't like having debt collectors and a hit to my credit score.

[Lord Satori]

Zeldathon just destroyed a limited edition, no longer in print, copy of the Zelda collection CD as a donation goal (none of us knew that they would do that) all to "break" one of their other members.

None of the silly things they do bother me (much) but I am NOT okay with that.

[Mischief Maker]

"Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10"

[neorichieb1971]

I got a 1% pay rise this year (haven't had my letter yet but everyone elses is 1%).
I put in a lot of effort in 2015 to get things rolling during a transition. Its been a hard swallow to get what everyone else got, especially since most did the minimum effort required.