The "Things that annoy me" thread

At least with it being winter I have the windows closed and don't have to hear the Kia bonging away for a couple of minutes before it buggers off.
 
new bathroom has outlet for shower head that directly includes a holder for said shower head. Some moron managed to lose the little plastic insert that actually grabs onto the shower head, so it’s currently sort of precariously hanging in mid balance in there, very lopsided. I’m certain I won’t find the plastic insert thing anywhere… available as spare/replacement part or something? NOPE! gotta buy the entire outlet holder thing again 🤦‍♂️ bloody grohe bastards… it’s only 30€, but still!

edit for clarification: the light grey plastic insert thing…
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93Flareside said:
Renault Zoe low speed sounds. I live on a through street and there's enough jackasses with those cars around here I now hate the sound they make with a passion. It's up there with "small trailer and like 3 things in it that bounces around at morning and evening and commute times."
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Tram said:
Oh yeah, heard a Renault Zoe at a low speed while walking back home the other day. My first reaction was: "why is this thing so noisy?"
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EV's, gotta love em, wave to the future boys! Bzzzzzz


Long live the V8.
 
eizbaer said:
NOPE! gotta buy the entire outlet holder thing again 🤦‍♂️ bloody grohe bastards… it’s only 30€, but still!
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This is where 3D printers are very handy! If you can model it and it's printable it costs you very little.

I want to re-install the sun visors in the bobtail Discovery. They have a mount on the outer side that screws in to captive nuts but the inner side would've been held in with a plastic clip, both of those got thrown out with the rotten old headlining. I'm going to 3D print some replacements.
 
I like trying to solve posts on r/helpmefind but...man, some people.

Like...how badly do you want to find a thing you've posted as a portrait photo of your computer monitor showing a paused landscape video if you're not even going to provide a link to, or even a name of, the video? Or a photo of a part, but no info about what the part came from?

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When you call a company and their phone system picks up the call immediately, so the minutes are ticking while phones are ringing inside the company. Especially annoying if it's one of those numbers that aren't included in your 5000 (or whatever) free minutes.

Also, new license plates are synced to our parts catalogs a handful of times a year, so if I come across a plate that doesn't work I double-check by sending a text to a paid number to get the VIN. They used to charge you for successful plate lookups but failed attempts were free. They recently changed the pricing so you're now paying for the failed attempt and getting the next one for free if you do it within a month. :poop:
 
Perc said:
Also, new license plates are synced to our parts catalogs a handful of times a year, so if I come across a plate that doesn't work I double-check by sending a text to a paid number to get the VIN.
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I repeat, wouldn't it be great if plates stayed with cars* instead of being unique to every keeper? It makes finding details so much easier, even a 20 year old bit of software has accurate details for cars made at that time. :p

Just the other day I was discussing with my dad how much it must cost to stamp new plates all of the time across... most of the world, where a car here might still have its original plates on after 20+ years.

*Unless they have private plates, which isn't all that common really.
 
Matt2000 said:
I repeat, wouldn't it be great if plates stayed with cars* instead of being unique to every keeper? It makes finding details so much easier, even a 20 year old bit of software has accurate details for cars made at that time. :p

Just the other day I was discussing with my dad how much it must cost to stamp new plates all of the time across... most of the world, where a car here might still have its original plates on after 20+ years.

*Unless they have private plates, which isn't all that common really.
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It costs €38 or so here in Germany. Its ridiculous how cheap.
 
Perc said:
numbers that aren't included in your 5000 (or whatever) free minutes.
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It's been ages since I've come across a company number that wasn't a regular landline (for which basically every private landline and many mobile contracts have a flatrate for) or an 0800 number (which are free for the caller).

In the old days, many companies had a special number that cost the caller the same as a call within her own city. Those went out of fashion since virtually everyone now has country-wide flatrates or plenty of free minutes, at least towards landlines.
 
93Flareside said:
It costs €38 or so here in Germany. Its ridiculous how cheap.
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I'm not talking about the cost to the individual, I'm talking about the overall cost (environmental and monetary) of making multiple plates for each car. Also to reiterate - registering a car here is free. It's just updating a database. No new plates to collect, no stickers/tags. It's also instant. The Freelander was registered in my name in 10 minutes and I drove it home.

The whole system of putting stickers on plates seems archaic to me, that's coming from a country that specialises in archaic. :p
 
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People in businesses that tell you they'll call you back, and then....don't.

Fuckin mechanic. I rang and they were busy putting cars away. "They'll call you back." Nope.
Give me my car back you inept neanderthals!! :thumbsdown:
 
Misrabelle said:
"They'll call you back." Nope.
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Yeah, they never do... renovating a house and dealing with like 10 different people for all the different shit has basically made me despise the entirety of all craftspeople. Independent of actual trade that they do, none (!) of them ever call you back. It's infuriating. And none (!) of them actually have any form of time management at all. Not a single thing happened "on time" (not set by us, but by them) either. This has lead to the exact place I never wanted to be in: that I'd say fuck it, I'll just do it myself.

Because of this bullshittery we've been living in this house for a week now without functioning heating downstairs... yes, it's cold.
 
I called last week to cancel a magazine subscription (ooh high fucking stakes here) and I think the one dude handling subs was on lunch, so I was told they could call back. Two hours later and they actually did call back, while I was in the shitter. Called back and eventually got through, turns out he had cancelled the subscription anyway because of the message I left the first time. Okay, bit over-eager there.

I'm moving the sub to digital because I actually have to admit that I don't have space to store more magazines.
 
I tried cancelling a subscription that our secretary had to one of those mail order shit magazines. Rang, explained that she no longer lives there, was willing to give a forwarding address. Was told “no don’t worry about it, we’ll just cancel.

The shit still arrives in the mail once a month.
 
I tried cancelling a newspaper subscription once. It took like 6 months, and they kept sending bills, and I kept contacting them to cancel. The whole time, they continued to deliver the paper, and once, even tried sending me a photo they took of a delivered newspaper as some sort of "proof" that they delivered, and that I should be paying my bill. At one point, they had sent a few of the bills to collections. I was already in a pretty shit place financially so I still kept ignoring it until it (eventually) just went away, because it was like $30 and it probably wasn't worth their time anymore...but they still kept delivering the paper for months.
 
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NecroJoe said:
I tried cancelling a newspaper subscription once. It took like 6 months, and they kept sending bills, and I kept contacting them to cancel. The whole time, they continued to deliver the paper, and once, even tried sending me a photo they took of a delivered newspaper as some sort of "proof" that they delivered, and that I should be paying my bill. At one point, they had sent a few of them to collections. I was already in a pretty shit place financially so I still kept ignoring it until it (eventually) just went away, because it was like $30 and it probably wasn't work their time anymore...but they still kept delivering the paper for months.
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I had a similar thing happen, I would call and it kept coming. Well, I got tired of dealing with it being in the box by the mailbox, so I broke out the duct tape and covered the opeing. The delivery guy cut it open and stuffed in the paper. So I removed the box and the pole it was installed on. The delivery guy put it in the flag on the mailbox. At this point I was downright miffed, so I met him at the mailbox on a Sunday morning and made it clear that I didn't want the paper and if it was delivered again I would make sure he received a littering ticket.

The paper stopped coming, but they started calling asking me to get the paper again at a reduced rate...
 
When a recipe includes things like seasoning mixes, but doesn't include the recipe for the mix.

Things like "Italian seasoning", ras al hanout, and "blackened seasoning".

Because then I have to go look up a recipe for the seasoning mix, and the recipes for the mixes are always way more than you'd ever need for a recipe, so then you have to do the math to downsize all of the ingredients to get to the amount needed for the recipe.
 
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