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Things that frustrate us all

Mr. Laser Beam said:
Speaking of appliances, I was at Costco today and they were selling a grill which had wi-fi.

A GRILL WITH WIFI.

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.

Could somebody tell me why exactly the hell a GRILL would need wi-fi? :wtf:

That makes even less sense than having a garage door opener with wi-fi!
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Some new Keurig coffee pod machines require a Wi-Fi connection now as well.

So it ‘can make the perfect cup of coffee for you’ every time, or some such silliness.

What’s worse is that it refuses to run if the connection is dropped or not present. In short, it ‘bricks’ itself.

We’ve only been making coffee as a civilization now for what, three thousand years or so? Surely we don’t the Internet for a ‘perfect cup of coffee every time’. *Sheeeeeeesh*

Cheers,
-CM-
 
My morning is off to a great start with the wonderful realization as I'm getting off the subway that I managed to leave my wallet at home, so I have no ID, no travel pass and no debit card on me for the day. I have just enough cash to buy a single subway ticket back home, and I don't remember my card number so I can't even order food online.
 
I have a CBC gem show on and it has a commercial break with six ads and all six were the same McDonald's ad
 
SJGardner said:
My morning is off to a great start with the wonderful realization as I'm getting off the subway that I managed to leave my wallet at home, so I have no ID, no travel pass and no debit card on me for the day. I have just enough cash to buy a single subway ticket back home, and I don't remember my card number so I can't even order food online.
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*hugs*
 
Customer calls this morning asking if we do flat repairs and if we have time to do one.
I said Yes bring the car down.
A short while later a car pulls into the parking lot, man gets out, comes in and asks if we do flat repairs.
I say Yes and go outside to inspect the tire.
As soon as I step into the parking lot I hear a loud hissing noise.
The customer points to his driver rear tire which is flat on the rim and said there was a nail in it that he had pulled out before coming in.
In doing so he had widened the puncture and damaged the tire while driving it to the shop.
Instead of a flat repair, he now needed a new tire.
It takes a special kind of stupid.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
Customer calls this morning asking if we do flat repairs and if we have time to do one.
I said Yes bring the car down.
A short while later a car pulls into the parking lot, man gets out, comes in and asks if we do flat repairs.
I say Yes and go outside to inspect the tire.
As soon as I step into the parking lot I hear a loud hissing noise.
The customer points to his driver rear tire which is flat on the rim and said there was a nail in it that he had pulled out before coming in.
In doing so he had widened the puncture and damaged the tire while driving it to the shop.
Instead of a flat repair, he now needed a new tire.
It takes a special kind of stupid.
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The bolded part of your post... I feel like this is, if I am being generous, roughly 85% of the population.
 
SithHappens said:
To be fair I think people should be given a break, what is obvious to one isn't to another.

They might be experts in something too.
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Indeed.

I freely admit to knowing two things about cars: jack and shit. I didn't grow up working on cars, I find them very confusing, and if you ask me what's wrong I will do my best to replicate the noise it made. I can do my own oil changes and recognize worn tires, change the air filter and that's about it. Anything mechanical, anything involving tires or replacing parts and I'm next to useless.

Hard to admit at almost 40 years old, but my expertise lies in much different fields.
 
fireproof78 said:
Indeed.

I freely admit to knowing two things about cars: jack and shit. I didn't grow up working on cars, I find them very confusing, and if you ask me what's wrong I will do my best to replicate the noise it made. I can do my own oil changes and recognize worn tires, change the air filter and that's about it. Anything mechanical, anything involving tires or replacing parts and I'm next to useless.

Hard to admit at almost 40 years old, but my expertise lies in much different fields.
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I used to be better but cars these days are designed to not be very DIY friendly, can change a wheel but no point as no spare, could check oil and tyres pressure but it tells me if something is amiss.

It's one of those, a car mechanic would probably rightly look down their nose at me and shake their heads. But maybe I have skills they would be grateful to avail of.

I've done it myself. Got a call from someone in senior management a while back, my laptop wont turn on. I say erm is it plugged in (knowing they had been on Holiday), yes it is they say. So I say sorry can I ask you to just trace the power cord from the laptop to the wall.

Silence, then a "Ffs it was plugged in when I left it'

Stupid people I think lol
 
So, the repairman came to fix the dishwasher. Oh, he says it's broken pump seal. It'll be $550 to repair it, but I think you'd be better off buying a new one.

Ugh.

He's right, but still....I guess I'm shopping for a new dishwasher this evening.
 
There was something wrong with my 20 year old dishwasher a few years ago. They told me it would be $250 to fix it. To this day I regret not getting it repaired. The new dishwasher gets all kinds of yucky if I don't clean the inside often enough. I have to dismantle all the plastic parts inside and brush them with bleach. It takes a good half hour. My old dishwasher needed none of that.
 
I can't decide if this is a frustrate me or something good but here goes.

I regularly use an online company to pay for parking for when I go to the football game in England. I have used them loads of times and parked in several different locations with no issues. Just pay, then turn up and park.

Last month my usual choices were full so paid for a different location, did the same turned up parked.

I subsequently received a parking ticket so I appealed firstly to the company I paid with. They instantly rejected the appeal saying on arrival i should have gone into the hotel concerned and logged my details. Apparantly this was in the small print for this location, I checked and to be fair it was but I said ok but as I've used you loads of times and never had to its reasonable for me to expect it to be the same but even so can you not just let them know I paid.

They refused so I appealed to the enforcer of the ticket who also refused on the same basis.

So I contact the hotel and ask if anything they can do, within minutes they have cancelled the parking ticket.

So that last bit is the good thing of course but still frustrating as a paying customer with a company I have used dozens of times that they were not prepared to even try and sort it, surely if the hotel when asked to look at can do it for me, they would also have done it on their behalf.
 
"Once you have their money, you never give it back."
Rule of Acquisition #1

Parking tickets fall under the same category. Any source of revenue, a company will do everything possible to prevent losing it.
 
wayoung said:
Agreed.



I've had arguments with people over it. It's presumptious. Arrogant. Superior. It assumes/orders you to do it, not asking.
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I've encountered this "please and thank you" stuff when I'm at a business and I have to fill out paperwork or something, and they want to get you to hurry up so they can move on to the next person in line. Yes, it's rather annoying.

Kor
 
Colonel Midnight said:
Some new Keurig coffee pod machines require a Wi-Fi connection now as well.

So it ‘can make the perfect cup of coffee for you’ every time, or some such silliness.

What’s worse is that it refuses to run if the connection is dropped or not present. In short, it ‘bricks’ itself.

We’ve only been making coffee as a civilization now for what, three thousand years or so? Surely we don’t the Internet for a ‘perfect cup of coffee every time’. *Sheeeeeeesh*

Cheers,
-CM-
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But that's the thing. Logically speaking, how can being connected to the internet help a coffee machine make better coffee? What, specifically, does it need from the internet in order to do that? That's what I don't get.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
But that's the thing. Logically speaking, how can being connected to the internet help a coffee machine make better coffee? What, specifically, does it need from the internet in order to do that? That's what I don't get.
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I mean, I gave you a list of reasons for the grill.

I'm actually using mine right now, to let me know when it finishes pre heating for tonight's dinner

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