Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

If I come to your website to see the Top 10 whatever, show me all ten on the landing page, as the Internet gods intended. I'm not ever going to click through your goddamned slideshow.

 

Aw, damn, yes.

In particular those "Top 20", which start with 3 entries per page, then 2, then 1, with so many ads and tracking that the page doesn't properly load and I never get to the end of the list...

I know it's click-bait, but it took me quite long to overcome the bait.

"Click-bait" the wrong name. Maybe "Siren-song". Tie me to the chair and hide the mouse!

 

Both of you

 

Online reviewers who rate a product lowly, but either a) do not understand how the product works; or b) criticize precisely the feature that distinguishes the product from others.

Like the person who rated one star on a 0.2 mm mechanical pencil for "writing too thin."

 

Those types make me question their ability to not complain about something.
Look at the bright side that they don't live with you.

 

Oh yes! The number of reviews I’ve seen complaining that something is too small or too big, when the dimensions are right there on the product page, is too many to count. This is no lie, I once read a review for a minimalist wallet, whose picture showed a credit card wrapped in a piece of leather, and the reviewer said, “The size of this wallet is a joke! It’s barely larger than a credit card!”

 

"Sir/ma'am, you only have 2 years an eleven months of experience. We require 3 years. Sorry."

While I don't deal with resume nonsense anymore, I know many who do and goddamn is that annoying.

 

D’you know which rejection line is even better than that? The “We can’t offer you the job as you’re over-qualified.” one.

 

Female main characters in stories and novels named Kat.

 

Corona (SARS-CoV-2) virus panicking. I'm smack-dab in the middle of the latest German hot spot (the couple who are in the center of said outbreak live 20 km away from me), and there are some surprising annoyances. Like people empty out stores on certain products. Some of those products I can understand (even though I know it's overreaction), like toilet paper and disinfectants, but one product baffled me: There's no Gouda cheese anymore. Now, I know it's the most popular make of cheese hereabouts, and the stores stock it up a lot more than other cheeses, so it baffles me that it's completely cleaned out. The other cheeses are still there in usual quantities, including tons of cheeses I find more than adequate substitutes for Gouda.

Panicking people are just weird, man.

 

I have a sore throat and a cough. I think maybe I have the corona.

 

Never mind the fact that the masks most people wear, and the way they wear them, won't protect them from infection.

Those surgical masks? They're intended to be worn by a DOCTOR, to keep the DOCTOR's snot on the DOCTOR, away from the patient. They keep the PATIENT from getting infected BY the doctor, not the other way around.

If you're infected and you know it, you can wear them to keep others from infection. If you're not infected, forget them.

Even if you wear a mask that properly seals off your nose and mouth (and those surgical masks and most common home improvement masks don't), they won't do you much good if you do not have a thorough procedure in place to get the mask off and prevent the infectious snot that covers the outside of the mask and the unprotected surfaces of your body from infecting you.

 

Is it fair to call it a panic when the virus is spreading fast and air borne? The last pandemics weren't as contagious and spread like wild fire, I think people are reacting appropriately this time. Unlike me, who hasn't been watching the news and in dire need of masks.

 

Use one wedge per 12 ounces.

(I hope it is just a simple cold.)

 

Gouda goes well with apples.

 

Caught the corona virus. After three miserable
days it died in bed clutching a box of tissue.

 

I'm struggling. If something should not really annoy me, I do not let it.

 

What do I do with them?

 

Yes! Review etiquette is fertile ground for serious irritation. I would add to that, people who give a product one star because it arrived late, or a restaurant one star because they couldn't get a table.

 

The salted caramel/chocolate craze. Yes, it can be nice when done well, but it's getting nigh on impossible to buy a chocolate bar that isn't salted these days!

 

I annoyed myself today. I had a parcel to send, but no envelope large enough. No problem, I can buy one. Then realised I didn't have a pen to write the address. They had a pen at the post office, so that problem was solved. As I was writing the address, I realised I didn't have any money to send the ruddy parcel anyway! So off to the library to transfer some across.

The part that bugged me was I was confident in the 3 euro to get the envelopes, but was oblivious to the cost of sending it.

 

Euro?