Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

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  1. OurJud

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    These over-confident nineteen year olds in their too-small suits who stand in supermarket entrances and try to persuade you to switch your energy supplier.

    It's the invasive "Hi there. Who's your current energy supplier?" that gets my back up. I get it that much these days that my default answer has now become, "Mind your own business!"
     
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    Count your blessings. Around here, those annoying twits go door-to-door.
     
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    Over-sized smartphones.
     
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    You're the one that kept telling me my invitation got lost in the mail.
     
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    Anyway, congratulations! :cheerleader:
     
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    With the NHS they tell you to go and buy paracetamol and ibuprofen at a supermarket... And that's the same for anything.
    Back injured in a car crash, had an operation, ear infection? Paracetamol and Ibuprofen.
     
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    Doesn't annoy me anymore, or works as a joke for me. After having some serious health events recently, an awful lot of healing is done by the body himself, and all medical care should and can do is just ease people to let the body do its work. For medication, Paracetamol and Ibuprofen (Aspirin also, if possible), and Cortisone, are the only common ones that work well and have little side effects. Absent other factors, that's good advice for medication. There is other advice which is probably more important than medication: Like staying home, staying in bed, NOT staying in bed and trying to move (for certain orthopedic conditions, mostly), drinking a lot, eating chicken broth, etc. It's all for the same reason: Help the body do its job.

    Among other things that do not annoy me anymore (they did, and they shouldn't) is waiting in an emergency room. If you have to wait there, you do not have anything bad. Or there are people who are way worse than you. (There IS a triage, and you are looked over. Thing is, as a patient you often do not notice when this happens.)
     
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    When people assume ASAP is a by-word for 'this instant' or 'immediately'.

    No, I'll do it as soon as possible. That could be in three-minutes time. Then again it might be in three weeks time.
     
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    Groupon. Yes, thank you for those deals you find for me. No, no, I don't need to see them at 2:30 in the morning, thanks.
     
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    YouTube has been pissing me off. It's bad enough they post ads at the start of videos, but now each time they've interrupted the video for more ads the video restarts at the beginning with yet another ad.
     
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    People who start sentences with "so".

    Unless it is followed by "a needle pulling thread".
     
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    Get an AdBlocker, I did and ne'er an advert has bothered me on the YT since. :)
     
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    The ads are IN the video, like a tv commercial.
     
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    Ah, I get the odd video that has those, but they are for sponsors of
    the vid/channel.
     
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    The last few time I used Youtube, I obviously caught strange and unpopular videos, so I got no ads whatsoever. That's not to say it was straight sailing. I frequently get a black playback field and have to reload to even get the video started. And the videos often stop randomly (no network issues otherwise), and then need reloading or forget where I was. Could be related to me using Safari:Mac as browser, but my Youtube consumption has gone down so much that I don't bother testing.
     
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    Back to original topic: Seeing parents buying school supplies for their kids, and selecting the cheapest options available when I know that those options would produce countless events of frustration and stress for the kid, and the option that would not is only slightly more expensive.

    Case in point, set squares (triangular rulers, with angle measurements and parallels). There's a normal one for 1.25, and one with a handle for 1.50. And thinking back to my math geometry days, I went out and bought the handle version by myself by the second day.

    Or Bic disposable mechanical pencils (not just for kids in school). I KNOW that within a year you will have to buy two more packs because they break. Get a 2- or 3-pack of the cheap brand name (Faber-Castell here in Germany, Pilot or Pentel in the USA) that's only 2 or 3 bucks more, and you're set for the next couple of years, so it's actually cheaper (and a lot less waste).
     
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    Why anyone wouldn’t install AdBlock is beyond me.
     
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    Politics. It’s all about dividing people, and the politicians drive the wedge in at every opportunity. When I dismiss politics and refuse to discuss it I’m accused of burying my head in the sand and have to listen to bollocks like “People are just passionate about what they believe in and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

    Do me a favour! If having ‘a keen interest in politics’ means hating your neighbour because he votes for the other party, then I’m proud to say I don’t vote and have no interest.
     
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    its not compulsory to hate people with different political views - i have good friends across the political spectrum ... all that requires is realising people can honorably hold differing opinions.

    on the voting thing though this summarises my feelings
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    Would you please tell the 70% of the population who think otherwise?
     
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    tbh i doubt even 7% of the population think otherwise - its just the very few and the media who reports on them... not to mention armchair warriors on FB who talk a good fight but are meek little lambs in the meatspace
     
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    I do have an ad blocker, but those ad blockers only work on popups and static ads. The Youtube ads I was complaining about are in the videos. You click play, and it starts an ad. In some cases you can skip part of the ad, like if it’s a minute long or more. Then, five minutes into the video there’s another ad- like a television commercial. And more ads after that at whatever intervals.
     
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