Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

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  1. Iain Aschendale

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    I'll take a look. Thanks.
     
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    Turns out I was just using the wrong terminology for those grommets. As soon as I found out I should be searching for long barrel grommets instead of long neck, they popped up on amazon right away! 4mm diameter with a 7mm barrel. Perfick!
     
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    Not the same as an aglet then?

    [first UK usage 2020]
     
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    No. Although a grommet is the same as an eyelet, as well as being a famous Nick Park character - capital G.
     
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    Grommets are in your nose? Kids have issues with their ‘grommets’...all sniffly/a bit porky pig in the diction. Doctors take them out...
     
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    I know they put grommets in people's ears to help it drain fluid. :p
     
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    This doesn't belong in here because it's only proper to be annoyed, but I'm putting it here anyway.

    Technical help incompetence.

    I tried to submit a question/query on a product I was considering buying on amazon, but kept getting an error message when I submitted about not having enough verified purchases. I used amazon's chat widget thing to speak to an assistant and explained the problem. The reply came back "Do you please having a link to the product you're trying to review?"

    'I'm not trying to submit a review. I'm trying to submit a question.' I replied.

    Cue lots of waiting while they 'looked into the problem'. Finally another response: "Okay I can see this is a problem for you. I need to submit it to our technical team and they will respond within 24 hrs."

    At this point I lost my patience and closed the chat window.

    Today I received an email from amazon regarding the issue: 'We are sorry to hear you were having problems with our website when trying to submit a review..."

    :supermad:
     
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    (Cue annoying hold music). :p
     
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    :rofl:
     
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    On a related note, Apple's TV.app and its service.

    See, with iTunes and their iTunes store they would sell TV shows (here in Germany) in two versions (mostly). One with the original language, the other's the German dubbed version.

    Then came macOS Catalina, and with it the end of the iTunes app. Catalina will not run it. Instead, you get TV.app (for TV and movies). And Music.app for music etc. The problem is that they tried to consolidate the different language versions. TV.app would only show one version, and I still haven't figured out why it shows sometimes one, and sometimes the other. You cannot control which language you would be shown, which you could buy, and for which show both versions would exist (some shows are only there in one language). I've even had it happen that I was shown English, it told me I bought English, and got delivered the German version. TV.app has some other UI deficiencies (it's horrible to go out and find new content, for instance), but this one was key for me.

    I've had a support ticket for it with since, well, forever. Since it came out, basically. So, the other day I got an email that the ticket is now closed, this is intended behavior, it will stay that way.

    I kinda expected that, so it kinda fits in the thread. I wrote them back, "See you, suckers, I'll take my money elsewhere". I checked, and all I have bought from them in the last couple of years I can get elsewhere, sometimes even better than with them. It was just convenience I stayed with them.
     
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    Apple Mac update #3 hours and counting. :cry:
     
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    That nagging feeling resting in the back of my skull whenever I write. It's good that it's there, least I become delusional about my story, but goddamn can it do me a favor and shut up once in awhile?
     
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    Insert quarter.
     
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    Things like this, that's what.

    I get these posts in my feed at least daily and I feel like this seemingly wholesome, innocent little thing is actually a cheeky little fucker trying to take the piss out of me. How is this even a question? What able-bodied person would say no? What I feel this image saying to me is - "This could have been you if you had made better choices."

    Yeah. That.

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    I'm getting real sick of them too. At least the meme squads are running around sarcastically answering back to these questions, so that's semi-enjoyable.
     
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    No, I would much rather work 60 hours a week and make a fraction of that cash. Where do I sign up? Or not sign up.
     
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    This annoys me too, but for different reasons. It annoys me because it demonstrates just how far we as a society have sunk into the digital/social networking cesspit. It sounds like a thoroughly delightful way to spend a month if you ask me.

    Like you say, only digital junkies and social networking whores would say no.
     
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    Netflix showing previews of movies I skim over. It works for movies I'm interested in, but those are a dime a dozen.
     
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    Oh, yeah. That drives me absolutely bonkers. No idea why.
     
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    Stupidly easy. It does not make a point at all, other than, "lookit me lookit me lookit me me me me me me ..." :mad::twisted:
     
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    Related: Don't know if Netflix does it, but Amazon Prime Video pushing binge watching. I just finished an episode. I just let the end credits roll and listen to the music to emotionally calm down. I do not intend to watch anything else.

    But then the little pop-up appears in the bottom right "Next Up. [Episode X from Series Y from your watchlist.]" And it stresses me out because I now have to pay attention to pause playback/close the player window at the right time so I get everything of the end credits and nothing of the what it believes I wish to watch next! (There's a bit of my OCD playing in that I want to watch the one thing completely – end credits and all – and nothing else, and not being forced to play even a second of something I want to watch at some time, but not right now!)
     
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