Weeny Peeves

Glad Tidings, Anyone reading. Please add your own 'Weeny Peeve', here, and VENT about it, if needs must. A Small (weeny) thing, which is irritating (peevish)... enough to be irritating, yet not so large as to breakdown One's life... I shall try examples of what I mean, thusly:

...Packets which say:"Pull here to open" --- Yet upon pulling, only the "Pull Here" part opens, and One must resort to the use of tools such as Scissors to open the rest of the darn thing.

...That floating bit of FLUFF which just *will not land* and so can constantly evade being swept up or cleaned away. (Vacuum Cleaners must be employed, here.)

...Things which state that they cost under "X" amount of money, yet only because they cost "X minus 1 plus 99-pence"... The saving of just 1 Pence is ALWAYS touted loudly as a bargain!

...TV Shows which are fictional but when beginning to discuss a real-life impasse, it is as if the writers know this and so change the subject... usually with something loud/dramatic/exploding.

...Not something I myself do, but have often seen done: When eating something "crunchy", upon the first bite, the rest of it fairly disintegrates so much that collecting the fragments is no longer worth any nutrition gained from the effort.

... Even if no-one else replies, I Myself may add to this Thread, now that I have started it, for everyday things. Good Fortune and Stay Safe, All.

  • here are some that come to mind lately:

    • a boiled egg where the shell and its membrane are especially tough and don't come away easily, you can't remove it without taking a lot of the white and at the end the egg you get is tiny and mostly yolk.
    • someone eating chewing gum with, you know, that sound-effect 
    • if the little end bit of my (or another person's) shoelace is tied so that it is too long, then it hangs down and makes a tapping sound on the floor when they walk around
    • someone clicking a pen and talking at the same time
    • wearing a new shirt, but one button is already loose (or falls off)
  • This is a last one for now, concerning "TV Reception". ...Sometimes when I want to watch certain TV programs, the reception cuts out. Weirdly, The TV programmes before and after that one are completely fine.
    Then, even days or weeks after, regardless of time-slots, if I wait for any re-runs, of exactly the same Episode, exactly the same thing happens. This is very annoying. (...Yes I am talking to *You*, "Pokemon and Transformers Rescue Bots on 'POP Freeview' " !)

  • ( ...just looking back at this Thread... now, in 2020. This thing IS still there!?! Grrrrg! Seriously!)

    Update may occur in 2021 if I am still able. )

  • This is an "Assembly-Line Errors" post for this Thread, maybe.
    When buying a box full of Tea-Bags or Sandwiches, and finding one or two which are half done. That is... one Tea Bag is twice as big, yet almost devoid of Tea, followed by the next one which is a bag bulging with Tea Leaves yet is as if already opened (i.e. too small to fit what had just been missed before). And of sandwiches, I once encountered a box of two wraps, one was normal, one was 1/2 size... the shopping assistant just gave a shrug at it... :/

    Of Toilet Roll / Tissues... surely all of Us (Human) here, have encountered this at some point. When the pristine-clean white(ish) stock, has one part in it with a very large dark blemish/"thing" on it. (...so what was that "thing" before it got squashed in the factory rollers, maybe...?) ...

    Finally, concerning BREAD... the staple foods for ('Civilised') Humans for about 10,000 Years, now. This includes Rice Bread. The Weeny-Peeve here is... Getting a nice thick slice of 'End', but then getting only a thin sliver of a slice of Other 'End' in the same "Loaf". Also, about Wholemeal Bread... too many "Weeny Peeves" to mention, yet *the* biggest is getting a slice which is just a "brown" thing (a soft slice with nothing in it)... then the next Slice is jam-packed with all sorts of Tough & bizarre Seeds/ Wheaty/Ricey-Additives & Hard-Bits. Yes this is "healthy and wholesome" but I can neither cook nor chew it, sorry... (!)

    ...The same could be said about "Juice With Bits", but I am not adding that, Nerrr. (Juice with accidentally too many "bits" is akin to drinking Soup, but, as I said, this Post is about Assembly Line Errors and it is just a "Weeny Peeve"... so We must Live And Learn...and Cope.)

    This reminds Me... Those who eat Breakfast & wash dishes will know about this last: ...'Dried-On' Weetabix/Cereal, or just Egg... certainly is a thing as tough as Iron and worth starting another Thread about concerning "Peeves", surely...?   Slight smile

  • ( Oh... Madam With the Long Nose... As I see this, it takes Me a while to compile a worthy reply. You, Ma'am, were one of the great pioneers of "lightheartedness" upon this forum. I simply followed You, and I can never be as good...! All I do is try to remain despite Hackers & etc...

    Yet as You ask, I wrote a thing about Timekeeping, here. But I think that, considering the 'current climate', too few are now in the sort of humour as was present when I began this Thread! Very very Glad Tidings to You Ma'am anyway. Here is what I wrote anyway... )

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    The "Even a broken Clock is correct at least once a Day" part...


    When One has a Battery powered Watch/Clock, and the Battery runs out in a way so as not to be noticed. (This especially happens to non-digital Bedroom Clocks which show only 12 numbers & not 24.) Sometimes The Watch/Clock itself *is aware* that it is NOT the only Watch/Clock in the house, and so may become jealous of other Clocks, & thus it mimics their times whenever they are looked at. (This especially happens to Manual Watches/Clocks, which are aware of Digital things such as a Smartphone.) ALL Watches/Clocks are aware of Time-Travel, and so They always know - from Greenwich - what the *real* Atomic Time is. Thus whenever bored or frustrated, they will make a sport of displaying false Times to anyone else who is not a Watch/Clock Themselves.

    E.g. - I check the Manual Clock at 12 noon, which is the correct time, and then look at another Clock to confirm that. Then I check the first Clock a bit later, 15h (3pm) and that is correct. But then even later I check the first Clock again and see other Clocks showing a different time? So the Battery must have run out, yet the Clock is still ticking.
    But still later, doing nothing, I check the first Clock and the Time is now correct and agreed at by all other Clocks. And this sort of cycle can repeat for very many days.

    Sometimes if a Clock is *really* angry, it may even run backwards, with the "Second"-Hand swinging back and forth, right there as it is being looked at. Upset Clocks will do this even as they are being set - the Hand just will not settle upon that particular Time. That would be the indicator for getting a new watch/clock... but some of them do eventually calm down and tick-on as if nothing was wrong.

    At times when a Battery needs replacing, a new one is not always available, and so the Clock will do as I just said there, or it will tick even louder during nights in order to carry on complaining. (Wildly jerking Hands or Digit flapping accompanied by a loud "Tch-Tch-Tch", is the most common form of admonishment.)
    The absolute worst thing to happen is when the Clock EXPLODES the Battery (so-called "leaking") and then - barring the use of a screwdriver - that is, alas, the end of the entire relationship.

    ...I am only writing here what I have seen for Myself, and am hoping that others understand. (!)
    Notice that I wrote nothing about that annoying thing when all things with Numbers everywhere are looked at and they all show the same number (11:11, 12:12, 3:33, etc.). And finally, when My Own Manual Clocks tire out, it is usually at 'a quarter-to-something', I know not why. Gravity, perhaps, makes the lifting of Hands a tiresome matter when Battery Power is low.

    Stay Safe, Everyone!

  • Please write more my fellow Takiwātanga.

    More sonnets from your fridge would be welcome....or other sonorous inanimate objects Slight smile

  • BMW drivers.

    Audi drivers.

    Mercedes drivers.

    Not necessarily in that order mind you.

  • I saw this DC and it reminded me of your wise words, it says a great deal about misunderstanding what is often quite obvious if only enough thought is put into interpreting and seeing what is before you.

    www.autism.org.uk/.../issue-101-me-and-my-fridge.aspx

    enjoy and keep being YOU GrinSnowflake

    ()

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  • File management ... what a nightmare. I get so annoyed over this : p I've set up a file naming and management system now in my office, explaining where to save every little file. And then I audit the project folders. It wastes so much time when things aren't saved properly!

  • That is Windows full stop (ever since 95 from memory/experience) including shortcuts.

    Plus I may add no induction into anything when you start work:-

    - Policies and Procedures

    - Ways of Working (File management, where to find things, how/where to store files, housekeeping)

    - Training/Upskilling in the Tools (Complexities of a Work Processor, Spreadsheet, etc)

    - New Starter checklist

    I also remember a colleague did not have the authority/permission to correct the time on his machine (WTF?)

  • Windows 10. Libraries, Quick Access .... seemingly hundreds of ways of getting to the *same place* in the file structure, which all seems a reasonable idea until you open a favourite bit of software that can't see these shortcuts and then you have to go hunting manually for a file whose location you never learned because "it's in Quick Access", and actually, all of those different ways of getting to the same place just make it more complicated to remember where stuff is, not less?

    Bookmarks, Favourites, Links. What are Links? Isn't everything that points to somewhere a link?

    "Windows is searching for a solution as to why this programme crashed" - has it *ever* found a solution? Or is it just there to waste our time and beg for yet one more mouse click to make it go away so we can re-launch?

    Grrrr....

  • When people  say "it's Friday!"

    YES I KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS THANK YOU Angry

  • The phrase "New & Improved"

    Something cannot be new and improved at the same time! 

  • These Things...

    (...I once recall one of these being left a couple of Roads away from where I (currently) am, and it must have been there for at least FIVE YEARS, at least. No Joke! It is not as if the "PostMan" did not notice that it was there for that long!)

  • Reading and enjoying :).  

    As always I find your humour and descriptive ability for inanimate objects as well as some others like fridgefreezers  and heating systems truly awesome :) 

    take careDC :) 

    x()x

  • When I get a Tune/Melody "stuck in My head" and cannot recall its origins.

    When, after putting up a Picture/Poster in One's House during the Day, that time during the Night when it is slo-o-o-o-wly peeling itself off from the Wall, and is making all sorts of creepy noises...

    When People see 'a Cloud in the Sky' and immediately start to complain that is about to Rain, even when it does not Rain; then they forget about that and then say the same thing about 'a Cloud in the Sky' the next day. And the next...

    Waiting at a Bus Stop for a Bus which is supposed to arrive every Fifteen Minutes, when what arrives instead is at least Three Buses "NOT IN SERVICE".

    (Pedant Alert!) ...The fact that My old School changed the Uniform a couple of Years ago, from wearing Proper Ties, to wearing CLIP-ON Ties... (Alas, Another essential Life Skill Lost, there...)

    The fact that, in 'Star Trek', James Cromwell invented the Warp Drive, and made First Contact with the Vulcan Empire. Why could it not have been Idris Elba, Judi Dench, or Beyonce instead?

    The fact that, in this Forum, No-one has any of the following UserNames :
    "JollyGoodShow, Chaps!"
    "Flipping Heck, That's Decent." (TradeMark)
    "I Carry On Regardless"
    "OverHillOverDaleAirShallAwaysPrevail"
    "WhateverYouHave,MineIsWayBetter"
    "AndThenTheyCameSeekingTheGreaterUnderpants"
    "NoMoreNonsense"
    "Intermittent Wireless"
    "OnePercent of OneInOneHundred"
    "Residual/Static Charge"
    "InSpaceNoOneCanHearYouScreamForMuffins"


    ...Thanks For Being Here, Anyone reading! :-)

  • Me again. When a Fridge and Freezer are left alone for over a Year or more, then late at nights, often they begin to argue by loudly BANGING at each other. Then whomever loses the fight will "Wet Themselves", and so a new Fridge or Freezer must be then purchased.
    ...I think that this happens with Washing Machines versus Dryers, but the Dryer in losing has no innate water, and so it just turns COLD at everyone whenever it loses.

    I should add that All of this most likely happens in very hot Summer Months.

    ...But the Central Heating NEVER loses a Fight, because it knows that IT controls nothing more-or-less than ** all of the Weather upon this Entire Planet **... and so at Nights it laughs loudly and heartily down the Plumbing, in celebration of its Omnipotence...
    ...But do not tell anyone else that I said that.      ;-)

  • A couple more, we do seem to like having a good old peevy moan... Love it, I am like the female version of Victor Meldrew sometimes.....

    Pee on toilet seats, wipe it off 

    Toilet seats left up.

    People walking alone looking at their phone screen who bump into you and don't say sorry.

    Push chairs. Really poor design. Why would a mother want to push her most precious cargo into a road first?????

    Fly tipping

    People who throw rubbish out of car windows, including lit cigarettes.

    People who whisper and giggle when somebody walks by, mot funny just nasty.

    Local Radio stations, all the adverts.

    Amazon next day delivery, which isn't next day at all.

    Shop assistants who when you complain about a problem then proceed to blame the computer..... Hello its not the computer its the knob using it!