Annoyed Thoughts: archive 1

Except, I think it’s supposed to be IT’S NOT AN EMOJAH!

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Why didn’t you have it delivered?

Why do you let your dogs in your bedroom?

Feature creep.
I’m no dogs on the furniture, not in the bedroom. Then my SO decides that when the dog is in the basement in my son’s room, well they can get on the bed there. Then the dog decides, good enough, I can go on the bed in the spare room, and my SO says fine.
The dog used to be crated, but it’s a weimeraner, which are very anxious dogs when they’re not around people. So a couple of months ago, the dog starts getting anxious in their crate everynight. So SO decides that the dog can sleep on a mat in our bedroom, which stops the anxiety for the dog and we can get back to sleep. So now the dog’s in our room every night.
And then the dog decides, well since I’m allowed on ‘beds’, now when I get up in the morning, as soon as I leave the room the dog is on the bed.
So, short answer, because my SO.

Sbux has offered me 100 Bonus Stars if I buy an ICED Latte plus some other hot drinks. No, just no… :unamused:

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They could make it 10,000 Bonus Stars if I buy any drink from there and … no.

Wheat Thins in a regular sized box are different than Wheat Thins in a family sized box and I much prefer the family sized version which makes it hard to control how many I eat.

!?

That’s weird. Are you certain it’s not some variant? I buy Triscuits, from the same manufacturer, and there are now about 16 types.

Yep, just standard Wheat Thins in a different box. I never buy the small boxes, but we had to get them in Charleston, SC this summer while vacationing at the beach. That is the first time I noticed. Last week my wife ordered regular boxes from Amazon instead of the family size and the same deal. The difference is the regular size box has a darker color, slightly chewier crispiness to them, and they are slightly maply tasting. They almost have a slight United Airline maple cookie taste whereas the sweetness in the family size is more a malt sweetness.

From this week’s Economist:

When people refill the napkin or paper towel dispensers incorrectly.

The little flap of the napkin needs to be in the opening so you can grab one at a time. Otherwise you have to pinch, and probably tear, like three or four of them when trying to remove them. If it’s newly restocked, then it can be near impossible to get purchase to even get a couple out.

Stupid online reviews.

I was searching for white boards and decided to click the reviews. Saw a 1 * review and decided to see what could possibly drive such a low review of a white board. Shoddy construction? Bad surface?

Nope.

“Item is too small for my needs. Now that I have to teach the first few weeks online and convert my spare room into a makeshift classroom, I wish I had the money to buy the larger version This one simply is useless for me.”

He/she had to have seen what size it is int he product listing. It’s 24x36. Says so right there in the product description.

The title of the review is " Not big enough for teaching-my fault"

Why give a bad review if you know it’s your own fault you bought an item that was so small.

That would be like me ordering a size M sweatshirt (I wear XL) and giving it a bad review because it doesn’t fit.

I noted this often while shopping for wifi routers. Some of the 1* reviews were from people that are completely ignorant and/or incapable of following well written installation instructions so they just decide to trash the product. " I bought this thing thinking I could have free wifi. Nobody told me I needed an internet provider…"

Oh, oh! The idiots who respond to Amazon product questions with “I don’t know”. When someone posts a product question on Amazon the site automatically emails previous purchasers asking if they know the answer… If you don’t have anything useful to say, just don’t answer!

For something I bought recently the Q&A section literally contained:

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That bothers you as much as it should

That drives me nuts. I seems especially common with Yelp reviews. “1 *. I ordered the chicken sandwich. I don’t like chicken.” WTF?

When I rented a venue for my kid’s wedding, I checked the on-line reviews. The one low review was “can’t drive a bus to this venue”. Ummm, they say that VERY prominently in the description. (there’s a small bridge that can’t take the weight.) You REALLY should have known that before you contracted with the place.

The venue was terrific. Very nice to deal with. Very flexible within the guidelines they had clearly laid out. Everything was at least as good as I expected.

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Wrong thread. This is the annoyed thoughts thread, not things that bother you more than they should.

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Or “5 stars - The pictures look wonderful. I can’t wait for it to get here so I can try it out!”

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Yesterday I cleaned house on all my old hard drives, sold them online, 5 drives for $70Cad.

Today I woke up and realised I had a use for that old server that’s sitting in my office. A server that has no drives, that I could have used the two enterprise drives that I just sold yesterday.

Dagnabit.

Also this thread makes it seem like we’re all annoyed all the time. I don’t think we are. More like ‘things I could be annoyed about, but meh’.