# 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:** 132
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2621 "2026-01-08T11:53:14Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > GRAD 26’ RAFFLE That’s an awfully big raffle. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2622 "2026-01-08T13:49:59Z")
Is the grand prize a model of Stonehenge? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2623 "2026-01-08T15:03:03Z")
Speaking of random apostrophe’s, I have an old specialty hobby magazine from 1974 that used commas to fill out right justification. I still read it, and 50, years on I still, get mad at, the random, commas, that break up the, flow of the, text. I can’t read, it without, pausing, in my, head. It’s almost, Shatnerian! I want to find these people and yell at them, “What were, you, thinking?” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2624 "2026-01-08T15:26:09Z")
The bootloader interface from a fairly prevalent chip manufacturer: > amboot\> boot > > ‘boot’ is not a recognized command! Type ‘help’ for help… > > amboot\> help > > ‘help’ is not a recognized command! Type ‘help’ for help… > > amboot\> ‘help’ > > ‘‘help’’ is not a recognized command! Type ‘help’ for help… > > amboot\> ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2625 "2026-01-08T16:13:04Z")
Habs tickets, actually, which is pretty legit. A set of car tires too, though I think there’s a max price on that. Lots of local vendor things. Lowest value item seems to be about $25. Tickets are $5 so pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2626 "2026-01-08T19:58:49Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > The fact that it infuriates @mnemosyne is, well, the point of this thread, yes? True, but the whole thread is in In My Humble Opinion, which i mentioned when I added- > [@DrDeth](#): > > Of course- that’s just In My Humble Opinion. 🤪 So, indeed- we have different Opinions. So? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2627 "2026-01-08T20:21:01Z")
Try > [@](#): > > ‘help’ for help 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2628 "2026-01-08T22:45:12Z")
Charles Schwab calls their online trading platform “Thinkorswim” (Yes, apparently they spell it as one word like that, but that’s not the main thing that annoys me). The name is obviously a pun on the common phrase “sink or swim”. But what does it mean? “Sink or swim” describes a scenario where you find yourself in the water (possibly metaphorically) and you have no choice but to swim, otherwise you’re going to sink. So “think or swim” means you’d better swim, otherwise you’re going to… think? That’s just nonsense! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2629 "2026-01-08T23:21:29Z")
Current peeve: fruit cups. You know the little Dole or store-brand plastic cups of fruit cocktail or diced peaches that moms put in kids lunches in hope they get eaten instead of traded for something sweet? Why in the world are those things sealed as tight as they are? I know they have to prevent leaks, but juice or pudding cups get by with easy to remove foil lids. Not fruit! Nope. Here you have a thickish plastic seal welded to the cup that is impossible to remove gracefully. 80% of the time you end up spraying juice all over trying to get at the contents. Pisses me off, it does. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2630 "2026-01-09T03:16:55Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QXJOSvUkX1E/hqdefault.jpg "Berlitz Commercial - We Are Sinking") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXJOSvUkX1E) ---
**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:** [January 9, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2631 "2026-01-09T04:53:17Z")
That is exactly why “Mayday mayday mayday,” was adopted. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2632 "2026-01-09T05:13:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Nope. Here you have a thickish plastic seal welded to the cup that is impossible to remove gracefully. 80% of the time you end up spraying juice all over trying to get at the contents. > > Pisses me off, it does. Yep, those things are clearly designed to be opened by kids, not adults. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2633 "2026-01-09T12:01:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Here you have a thickish plastic seal welded to the cup that is impossible to remove gracefully. 80% of the time you end up spraying juice all over trying to get at the contents. I endorse this pitting. It’s been awhile since I’ve had these, but as far as I can remember, some of them peel off relatively easily—so it is possible—but some of them I’ve had to cut open with a knife. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2634 "2026-01-09T14:38:10Z")
My packaging pet peeve is with Sheba cat food, which is my stepdaughter’s cats’ soft food of choice. They come in a two pack, which you have to snap in half to separate. But the foil covering the top is one piece, so once you snap the package in half you have to sort of twist the two halves, hoping the foil will separate cleanly down the middle, which half the time it doesn’t. The little tab on the foil for pulling it off is often tucked neatly under the edge, and for someone like me with short fingernails it’s difficult to get it in a position where I can grab it and unseal it. And it’s nearly impossible to cleanly pull the foil off and dump the food in the food bowl without getting cat food juice on your fingers. Dogs, on the other hand, are easy: scoop out some dry food into a bowl and you’re done. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2635 "2026-01-09T15:23:55Z")
I thought this fit better here than the “Stupid Software Design” thread, because this really does infuriate me, and I guess it’s debatable if it’s stupid design or not. It’s a Microsoft Windows quirk that was present in Windows 10 and is, if anything, even worse in Windows 11. It’s pretty minor, but it drives me absolutely bonkers, and I experience it multiple times a day, every single f\*\*king day on my work computer. It’s the simple act of selecting text in a file in File Explorer. When I work on a document, I never start with a blank document. Instead I take a similar document, copy it in File Explorer and paste it into the folder that I am working in. So the file now reads as “OriginalFileName - copy.docx”. But I then want to rename it. But I _never_ want to erase all of the filename, just part of it. But inevitably, despite selecting only part of the filename (the part I want to modify), File Explorer automatically expands the selection to select the entire filename. But it doesn’t do it right away. No, there is a slight delay where it selects the whole filename _right as I start typing_, thereby deleting all of the existing text in the file name. So I have to hit “undo” and try again. Look, Microsoft: if I wanted to select the whole filename, I WOULD SELECT THE WHOLE FILENAME. But if I make a point of only selecting _part_ of a filename, maybe that’s because I ONLY WANT TO SELECT PART OF A FILENAME. Stop assuming I want to do something I don’t want to do! For what it’s worth, I have a Mac at home, and I literally never have this problem. So it is a conscious decision to make it this way in Windows. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2636 "2026-01-09T15:30:32Z")
Something that is infuriating about the latest MacOS and Windows is the plethora of text suggestion and rewriting (dare I say “AI”) features that leap into life as you start typing. It took me several months of wondering if my typing skills were fading with age before I realized it was all of the overhead of the helpful autocompletions, spelling checks, AI rewrite, whatever that was making my keyboard so laggy that it was downright unreliable. It would cause doubled keystrikes, swallowed keystrokes, reversed letters, and so on. Combine that with helpful auto-replacements of words with some totally unrelated word, while obvious mistakes are left in place. I turned all of that off that I could, relying on red squiggly lines to tell me I have misspelled words. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2637 "2026-01-09T15:36:58Z")
I have a similar issue with web browsers at work. Corporate IT has browser home pages set to the corporate intranet home page. But for some reason there is a several second delay before the home page URL populates in the address bar. So I’ll open a browser, start typing a URL or search term in the address bar, then suddenly whatever I’ve typed is replaced by the home page URL. So then I have to clear the address bar and start over. So aggravating… ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2638 "2026-01-09T17:08:45Z")
What is it with app subscription services that demand constant requests of knowing I’m me? Hulu is the worst. Every time I want to switch devices ( PC, laptop, smart TV ) I have to go through the whole log-in rigamarole. I paid for the GD service, let me use it freely! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2639 "2026-01-09T18:24:46Z")
> [@robby](#): > > But I _never_ want to erase all of the filename, just part of it. But inevitably, despite selecting only part of the filename (the part I want to modify), File Explorer automatically expands the selection to select the entire filename. But it doesn’t do it right away. No, there is a slight delay where it selects the whole filename _right as I start typing_, thereby deleting all of the existing text in the file name. So I have to hit “undo” and try again. I don’t have that problem at all, and I select and change parts of filenames in File Explorer many times per day. It didn’t happen in Windows 10 and it’s not happening in Windows 11. I wonder if it’s how you are clicking that is causing that to happen. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2640 "2026-01-09T18:34:46Z")
I think that has something to do with your equipment or your account .I very rarely need to log in again on Hulu - sometimes if there’s been an update or if I haven’t used Hulu on a particular device in a long time ( months, not days). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=131) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=133)