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The "Things that annoy me" thread

It's a well-regarded sourdough bakery, supplier to lots of stores and restaurants. I've always bought the day-old sourdough for 1/2 price, and it generally lasts several days without issue. This was my first time buying their ciabatta...and last.
 
I confess, I'd have just cut the mouldy bit off and scoffed it... đź«Ł

I was similarly irked, when making a cup of tea the other night, to find the milk had turned a full 4 days earlier than suggested by the carton.
Especially as it was 10:30pm and the nearest open shop was a 15 min drive away...

It's actually quite fortunate I gave it a sniff before pouring it, it just seemed to cling to the sides of the carton in a way that didn't look right. A fact that was confirmed by it smelling like cheesy dry dog food...
 
Our stupid water softener machine thing is on the fritz! It shows a random error that the RTFM just says "contact service" for. ugh. why is something always broken or in need of fixing? oh well, guess i'll call them on monday then... (did I mention I hate having to call people?)

I mean sure, it was a complete miracle that they managed to get it going again at all when we moved in 1.8 years ago - since it was already 19 years old and, according to the service technician, probably had never been serviced at all. that's a device in the actual drinking water supply and supposed to be serviced once a year. yeah...

Edit: internet post said to open here, take this out, clean it, put back. I opened, took out, discovered it was squeaky clean already, put it all back… and the error was gone (and keeps being gone). stupid Stone Age tech.
 
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Dear manufacturers of these things: why don't you pull yourself together?

Here's a really neat idea. I would have bought one of these and screwed it to my desk if it had four type-C instead of four type-A.
The product photographer even put an Apple 20W USB-C wall wart in it, for christs sake. The point of thing is to not have to use wall warts.

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NecroJoe said:
Yesterday at 4:40PM, I bought a loaf of day-old ciabatta. Super looking forward to eating some of it for dinner. Got home at 9:00pm, and got all my sandwich ingredients prepped. I went to cut the bread at 9:20pm, and saw several spots of green/blue mold on the bottom of the bread already.

I went back to the bakery this afternoon and asked if I could exchange it for another day-old loaf. She gave me a bit of attitude that I had to push back on. "Well, it was sold as a day-old, so..." was supposed to be some sort of excuse for selling moldy bread.


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I wonder if the bread was still warm when they bagged it up.
 
When people use "Anymore" at the end of a positive phrase. Like "These high prices are terrible anymore."

I've been seeing it more and more in recently years, seemingly from people fluent in English.

Is there some accepted definition of this term that isn't "no longer" that I've just been missing?
 
NecroJoe said:
When people use "Anymore" at the end of a positive phrase. Like "These high prices are terrible anymore."

I've been seeing it more and more in recently years, seemingly from people fluent in English.

Is there some accepted definition of this term that isn't "no longer" that I've just been missing?
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Who where what? Coming from the Midwest, „Though“ is added a lot, but it maintains its meaning.
 
At work, they announced a huge game of office shuffle. since we're absorbing a bunch of new employees from a merger thing, everybody is getting shuffled around all over the place. We were supposed to do a 3 month temporary move, in order to free up space for other units to move in etc.
first of our announced moves was cancelled, because "you guys only need two rooms whats the use".
today, the move is back on for next tuesday - which basically means "tomorrow" because thursday is national holiday, so that friday everybody is off and I have mondays off. yeah... happy days, trying to get my office cleaned up that i've been in for the past 4 years.
 
eizbaer said:
At work, they announced a huge game of office shuffle. since we're absorbing a bunch of new employees from a merger thing, everybody is getting shuffled around all over the place. We were supposed to do a 3 month temporary move, in order to free up space for other units to move in etc.
first of our announced moves was cancelled, because "you guys only need two rooms whats the use".
today, the move is back on for next tuesday - which basically means "tomorrow" because thursday is national holiday, so that friday everybody is off and I have mondays off. yeah... happy days, trying to get my office cleaned up that i've been in for the past 4 years.
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How un-german. Was this organized by the same people who built the theater underground by the köln dom?
 
I dont get out much and rarely impulse buy anything but snacks...but I had a sudden craving for some fresh-squeezed OJ. I actually went out just to buy a (manual) juicer, and 3 oranges.

Almost $19 later, and I had 7 measly ounces of the most bland orange juice I've had in at least 30 years.
 
NecroJoe said:
I dont get out much and rarely impulse buy anything but snacks...but I had a sudden craving for some fresh-squeezed OJ. I actually went out just to buy a (manual) juicer, and 3 oranges.

Almost $19 later, and I had 7 measly ounces of the most bland orange juice I've had in at least 30 years.
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I was surprised last winter driving to finnmeet last January in either Lithuana or Latvia, stopping at a random fuel station at 2am to find an orange juice machine that squeezed oranges all in one go. Was great.
 
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orange juice machine that squeezed oranges all in one go
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Ha, I once encountered one of those contraptions in a hotel in Paris. Fascinating stuff, but it actually worked surprisingly well. Must be an absolute nightmare to keep clean / safe though… maybe the entire thing is waterproof so you can just sink it into a tank of disinfectant or something.
 
eizbaer said:
Ha, I once encountered one of those contraptions in a hotel in Paris. Fascinating stuff, but it actually worked surprisingly well. Must be an absolute nightmare to keep clean / safe though… maybe the entire thing is waterproof so you can just sink it into a tank of disinfectant or something.
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I suspect that it's like the soda nozzles in fast food restaurants. Like serving in the US military if you're a fruit loop. Don't ask, don't tell. Ignorance is bliss.
 
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