Pet Peeves

[Sorus]

Mail? In this day and age? My work emails my (I assume) equivalent to me.

--A

Rawr, I'm a dinosaur.

I do have the option of getting my W2 online, but I prefer to do my taxes the old-fashioned way. And this new 1095-whatsit form was not offered electronically, as far as I know. I've had all of my other paperwork since the end of January.

[MsMary]

Our workplace still mails them.

[Avatar]

When I switched over to e-filing, it was the smartest thing I ever did. Takes me 5 mins to do my taxes online.

--A

[Sorus]

Dear Microsoft - I do not want to upgrade to Windows 10. I don't care if it's free. I don't care if it's made of the best parts of Windows 7 and 8. You know what the best part of Windows 7 is? It doesn't contain any Windows 8.

[Avatar]

This: https://www.mweb.co.za/games/view/tabid ... grade.aspx

Or do what I do and turn off updates entirely.

--A

[peter]

Those soft chimes they increasingly use in airports and on laptops etc, that alert you to a message or whatever it is they want you to pay attention to. They remind me of science-fiction film scenes set in pristine white and chrome shopping malls with slightly an unreal felling to them. "Welcome to Zyclon B. Have a good day and rest assured we will be wathing you for your own well-being all the time."

[Avatar]

I keep my sound turned off.

--A

[MsMary]

Ha. Here's a pet peeve:

Cliff hanger ends of stories when there's NO sequel!.

I finished an audio drama Friday that built up to a crisis event and literally ended, "Here's what we should do..."

*cue theme music.*

[Sorus]

That's annoying.

[Linna Heartbooger]

Those soft chimes they increasingly use in airports and on laptops etc, that alert you to a message or whatever it is they want you to pay attention to. They remind me of science-fiction film scenes set in pristine white and chrome shopping malls with slightly an unreal felling to them. "Welcome to Zyclon B. Have a good day and rest assured we will be watching you for your own well-being all the time."

NICE description.

The peeve I come here with today is this:
There aren't more children's books being written lately with real fear & conflict...

Sooooo many are like, "There was this bully. But he really was just lonely/hurting*. So then we were nice to him and he became our friend."
That's not just underestimating the would-be readers; it's also a disservice to them.


* and that part often has truth in it... so it gives fuel to the lie.

[Avatar]

That sounds like its for very small children though.

--A

[peter]

At last my 'den' is decorated and has a carpet down (it has no door because yesterday the carpet guys who did a great job laying the carpet couldn't close the door - so they took it off and left) so I went to get a sofa-bed. We chose one from a catalogue in our local Argos store, went to order it at the desk where the woman told us it would take 8 weeks to deliver and might be substituted for 'a similar product' at the time of delivery. A sofa-bed, in a specific fabric and color chosen to match a newly decorated room and costing five hundred quid and they tell me they may give me 'something similar' in 8 weeks time. Ta, but no ta very much.

[Avatar]

Bloody Argos.

Nearly Total War time huh?

--A

[peter]

Definitely getting there Av. It is however very much a work in progress. Because we are having so much done (after years of neglect I'm ashamed to say) and not just one room, it all has to be done in order, with this thing having to be done before that thing and then that other thing not being able to be done until that thing has been etc........
But slowly with each step we move forward toward the ultimate goal - not unlike Total War itself I imagine!

[Avatar]

Also, if you got the game stuff sorted first, you may have problems getting to the rest of it...

--A

[sgt.null]

drivers keep getting worse. running red lights gets people killed, but when Houston had red light cameras, the citizens damn near revolted and they were taken down.

[peter]

Amongst the disparate group of (63) items that resulted from my search on the Harrod's website for wall tapestries were kettles, star wars modelling kits and a foldable colander.......a foldable colander! Needless to say, there were no wall tapestries.

[aliantha]

Foldable colanders are kind of cool -- space-saving and all that -- but I'm resisting the urge to buy one on the grounds that I already own two (three, maybe?) non-folding colanders.

What sort of wall tapestries are you looking for? I saw some lovely ones at Kilkenny Castle, but I'm pretty sure they weren't for sale...

[Avatar]

Sounds like their search function is a bit messed up.

--A

[peter]

Yes, my exclamation mark pertained to the oddity of an algorithm that threw up a folding colander as an alternative to a wall tapestry rather than to the object itself, for which I can envisage numerous uses .

Modern tapestries Ali, which are proving hard to locate in the UK at least - quality woven ones at least!