# Most pointless thing possible to complain about **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022 "2016-02-24T21:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/21 "2016-02-26T21:40:05Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > (snip) … Note that the paper is dispensed out of the bottom of the unit. The cheap-ass paper that they hold tends to tear off inside the unit at random. It wouldn’t be a problem except that building engineers everywhere, sadistic bastids, feel compelled to mount them about two feet off the floor. **So that means that from sitting on the toilet, I have to bend over and bend my arm in three places to dig the end of the paper out.** (Emphasis mine.) In many places, this has the added benefit of activating the auto-flusher, ensuring that your bottom is thoroughly rinsed with whatever effluvia is currently in the bowl! You really should have to pay extra for the experience. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/22 "2016-02-28T13:22:31Z")
I hate the bacon that you fry in a pan when it folds over lengthwise and you cant get it to unfold without using an additional utensil! What a big pain! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/23 "2016-02-28T13:29:46Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > I hate the bacon that you fry in a pan when it folds over lengthwise and you cant get it to unfold without using an additional utensil! What a big pain! If you lick your fingertips and hold lightly, bacon can be made without utensils. #campingtips ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/24 "2016-02-28T14:19:02Z")
finding out that I’ve muffed the morning pot of coffee by taking a drink and getting a mouthful of grounds. the various toilet paper dispenser issues, I agree, those dispenser designers, implementers and any others who think this is a good thing, well, to quote one Hanover Fiste, “He’s a low-down double-dealin back-stabbin perverted worm. Hangin’s too good for him, **BURNINS** to **GOOD** FOR HIM, **HE SHOULD BE TORN INTO [SIZE=“5”]ITTY BITTY PEICES AND BURIED ALIVE![/SIZE]**” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/25 "2016-02-28T16:46:17Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > finding out that I’ve muffed the morning pot of coffee by taking a drink and getting a mouthful of grounds. > > the various toilet paper dispenser issues, I agree, those dispenser designers, implementers and any others who think this is a good thing, well, to quote one Hanover Fiste, > > “He’s a low-down double-dealin back-stabbin perverted worm. Hangin’s too good for him, **BURNINS** to **GOOD** FOR HIM, **HE SHOULD BE TORN INTO [SIZE=“5”]ITTY BITTY PEICES AND BURIED ALIVE![/SIZE]**” And spellin’ correctly is too good for him too! sorry, couldn’t resist ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/26 "2016-02-28T16:59:07Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > And spellin’ correctly is too good for him too! > > sorry, couldn’t resist that’s ok, its all good. I just spelled it phonetically-ish as I remember it being spoken in the movie I lifted it from. and on further review note that I didn’t put in an apostrophe anywhere to mark the dropped letters:smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/27 "2016-02-28T17:46:21Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > that’s ok, its all good. I just spelled it phonetically-ish as I remember it being spoken in the movie I lifted it from. > and on further review note that I didn’t put in an apostrophe anywhere to mark the dropped letters:smack:😃 “I before E, except after C, or when sounding like A, as in neighbor or weigh.” 😃 :ducks and runs: ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/28 "2016-02-29T00:38:12Z")
_DOE!_ :smack::smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/29 "2016-02-29T02:04:09Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > _DOE!_ :smack::smack:😃 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/30 "2016-02-29T12:15:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > If you lick your fingertips and hold lightly, bacon can be made without utensils. > > #campingtips In a hot pan :eek::eek: :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/31 "2016-02-29T12:29:24Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > In a hot pan :eek::eek: > > :dubious: Sure. You don’t touch the pan, you lightly touch the bacon, and you lick your fingertips immediately prior (and after). ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/32 "2016-02-29T12:34:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Sure. You don’t touch the pan, you lightly touch the bacon, and you lick your fingertips immediately prior (and after). ahhh I forgot the licking part! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022/33 "2016-02-29T22:01:41Z")
Another one in a different vein: they’ve given us all a second computer monitor at work that happens to be a wide-screen format. I adore having more screen real estate to work with because I’ve always hated having to alt-tab. Having said that, I am finding it slightly uncomfortable that the outer edges of both monitors are too far from my face when the inner edges are at the right distance. Feels like I need to move my chair back and forth a lot. And if I put one monitor above the other, then it would be the same problem in vertical space. When are they going to develop monitors with a slight curve to maintain an even viewing distance? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-possible-to-complain-about/747022.md?page=1)