# Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 4, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712 "2024-09-04T02:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 123
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2441 "2025-11-26T13:26:05Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Still a dumb thing to do. You can also get a different color bezel which I don’t give a shit about. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2442 "2025-11-26T15:56:40Z")
Looking at the Samsung site it seems it’s meant to appeal to someone making a statement. That’s not me. I just bought a digital [Geochron](https://www.geochron.com/4k/) and will display that instead of art, even if it’s an artist I’ve heard of. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2443 "2025-11-26T16:42:12Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > “I’ll be taking care of you today.” This one’s not new but it drives me crazy every time nonetheless. “How’s everything tasting?” {{_cringe_}} ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2444 "2025-11-26T16:46:21Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I want to subscribe to Samsung’s Art Store. Basically a screen saver of ~3000 classic pieces of art. My Roku device app offers a screensaver of paintings from various museums. It wasn’t obvious where to find it - it was under Backgrounds in the Settings and I’d never dug back there. There might be a built-in option someplace in one of your TV apps. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2445 "2025-11-26T17:00:29Z")
Thanks. I’ve looked and can find some. But I would like thousands. This would be something we just leave on. We don’t watch that much TV really. We are going fully solar, so electric costs are not an issue (and new tvs hardly use any anyway) It just pisses me off. I bought their ~800 dollar TV, and they won’t sell me their content. WTF? It’s complicated. We just bought a new house. We have a nice finished basement that we play darts in. It would be nice to have a TV down there. Probably just play music from it. But, as winter arrives we may spend more time downstairs, so should have a TV too. I donno, we’ve only lived here a few months. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2446 "2025-11-27T03:20:07Z")
Watching a movie that’s supposed to be happening 6000 years ago, and everybody’s wearing pants and shirts. Even the women. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2447 "2025-11-27T04:29:37Z")
And good teeth ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2448 "2025-11-27T07:04:06Z")
It would be even worse if there was a washing instructions tag sticking out of the shirt collar. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2449 "2025-11-27T21:55:44Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > And good teeth Well, Russell Crowe, Emma Watson, and Anthony Hopkins, so yeah. What bothers me about the costumes is that it seems to cater to a certain lowbrowed audience segment that wouldn’t be able watch the male characters more accurately clad in robes and tunics without mocking them as “men in dresses”. I’m probably overthinking it, though. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2450 "2025-11-27T21:58:46Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Watching a movie that’s supposed to be happening 6000 years ago, and everybody’s wearing pants and shirts. Even the women. What movie is that? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2451 "2025-11-28T05:09:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > What movie is that? _Noah_, a fairy recent film retelling the Genesis flood narrative. I don’t believe in it, but it’s a fun story to watch, sort of like _Titanic_ in reverse, or something. Actually it was mostly pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2452 "2025-11-28T18:16:07Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Looking at the Samsung site it seems it’s meant to appeal to someone making a statement. That’s not me. I just bought a digital [Geochron](https://www.geochron.com/4k/) and will display that instead of art, even if it’s an artist I’ve heard of. 5 sec. on that webpage and I picked up the phrase “premium-layer” … and I guess we are all smart enough to know what THAT means … diamond hard “pass” from me (… but, hey - I **am** a cheap guy) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2453 "2025-11-29T01:01:35Z")
This is really minor. Every month I get an email with the subject “Customer Auto Payment Scheduled”. And every damn time, for a second I think, “Wait a minute, I don’t owe any payments on my car!” Nope, it’s not an “automobile” payment, it’s an “automatic” payment, from my water utility. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2454 "2025-11-29T01:17:21Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Every month I get an email with the subject “Customer Auto Payment Scheduled”. And every damn time, for a second I think, “Wait a minute, I don’t owe any payments on my car!” Nope, it’s not an “automobile” payment, it’s an “automatic” payment, from my water utility. My banking app tries to classify payments into categories based on the name of the payee. I was surprised to see how much was going to “Alcohol & bars” until I saw they were for my municipal “pub” utilities. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2455 "2025-11-29T03:55:11Z")
Tangential… I have a few colleagues who, on Fridays, will end meetings with “if I don’t talk to you again, have a good weekend” and every time I think (sarcastically, I’m not superstitious about this) “but what if you _do_ talk to me?!? Are you planning to call me later just to fuck up my weekend?” It strikes me as the oddest phrase and annoys me every time I hear it. Just say “have a good weekend” and leave it at that! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2456 "2025-11-29T05:18:23Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > 5 sec. on that webpage and I picked up the phrase “premium-layer” … and I guess we are all smart enough to know what THAT means … Yes, about $10.67 a month for everything. There are something like 85 layers available. The ones included w/o anything premium include common shipping lanes and airline routes, air pollution (2017 data), light pollution on the dark portion, basic weather, moon phase, and orbit tracks for ISS, CSS, and HST. The premium layers they have to pay for the data so pass the cost on (with a handsome markup, I’m sure) and include much more detailed weather (precipitation radar, ground winds and jetstream, storm tracks), earthquakes and volcanoes, ISS live Earth camera, Air Quality Index, active aircraft carrier locations, and a whole bunch of ham radio workstation data that I don’t understand like ADIF log, MUF, and solar weather. Bought new you get six months of the Global Pass, as they call it included. When that expires I’ll likely trim it back to just earthquakes and volcanoes, $20 a year. I spill that much. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2457 "2025-11-29T12:09:17Z")
got a good one: on the job we use **google-contact(s)** … I mostly use it to keep tabs on whom to invite to what type of monthly recurring “technical meetings”. e.g. - "legal cr@p - meetings” or - “hiring cr@p - meetings” - “IT cr@p - meetings”. So I create the “legal” or “hiring” label and stick it to names. So far so good, as I just need to put “legal” in my email “send to” field and the right 50 names get filled in. Our members are from 30+ companies. About 2-3 times a year, I get asked: “_Al128, you are a great guy, smart ‘n good looking and we love you - could you let me know whom of [my company, say IBM] you invite to which monthly meetings, just to make sure the info is up-to-date as we have been reorganizing?”_. Here’s where Goo-Cont. soils the bed: there is no way I can search the database for \*@[ibm.com] to get a list of IBM people that have (or don’t have) a label… b/c why would you do this, right? I need to go through all 4-5 different “label-categories” and look for ibm people in each to be able to tell my contact who receives what invitation. I have not found a way around that, neither has Chat-gpt or people in fora (if the search-engines are to be believed) Google enshittification at its best, it infuriates me, as I have to spend 15 or so minutes (en the year 2025!) scrolling through DBases to manually pick out entries (and running the risk of missing a few). ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2458 "2025-11-29T12:10:52Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Watching a movie that’s supposed to be happening 6000 years ago, and everybody’s wearing pants and shirts. Or a post-apocalypse drama where society and government have collapsed but everyone manages to have their clothes clean and ironed. ---
**Author:** ![sb1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@sb1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sb1953)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2459 "2025-11-29T15:18:51Z")
here in SW Ohio we call it ..”The one and two Thirds bank” ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2460 "2025-11-30T04:25:43Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Gaaaaa… That drives met a bit batty as well. Me too! Who is Ruth and what on earth is a Chris steakhouse? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=122) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=124)