My stepfather owns a Harley. My mother convinced him to buy after-market silencers.
It still looks “cool” but it is nowhere near as noisy as it was.
(I don’t think Harleys are very cool. Cool is for us 50yr old kids!)
I have a related issue, in that one of my former employers is now one of my customers.
This wouldn’t be a problem except for reasons I can’t fully explain (related to signature system access or site access as a contractor I’m not sure) there is an active email address for me at my former employer. There’s no automatic response and one can’t be set, or so I’m told. I have zero access to my old job’s email system.
My new company’s email format for the names is the same, so the only difference is the domain which are quite different, but thanks to Outlook showing the person’s name instead of address, people don’t see the domain.
I regularly have to chase people for documents and they indignantly tell me they sent them….to the wrong address. Or I’ll get phone calls from people looking for follow-ups on things someone else sent …to the wrong address.
It’s been nearly 3 years and some people still make that mistake (people I deal with routinely).
I wonder how many unread emails are in that inbox?
I saw a FB post today that reads exactly as follows: “Today is the 45th. Anniversary of the Vietnam War. No mention of it anywhere. We salute our veterans, living and dead. God bless you all.” So much wrong here. First, the period after 45th. Second, the fucking war ended over 50 years ago, how the fuck can it have a 45th anniversary today? Third, when is the anniversary of an event that stretched out over nearly a decade? The beginning? The end? Somewhere in the middle? Fourth, since when is the 45th anniversary of anything a big fucking deal? Fifth, the whininess of “no mention of it anywhere” as if there was some evil conspiracy to deprive Vietnam veterans of recognition. Sixth, the fact that so many people blindly repost this drivel, often many times over the past several years, without a moment figuring out that doing so makes them look like dumb fucks.
I’m peeved when obviously affluent youtubers complain about how much things cost and/or shill for money to cover expenses above what they get from their subscriber base already. Without naming names, I’m thinking about a very successful channel owner asking for donations to “support” his dog’s litter of 5 puppies.
And the puppies are his fault for not getting the dog fixed.
I get annoyed by people who use the word majority when they mean plurality.
I know, you’re thinking “Boy, Nemo, that’s a pretty niche problem.”
In general, yes, it is. But I play board games as a hobby. And I have encountered several rulebooks (including one yesterday which prompted this post) where the writer used the word majority when they probably meant plurality, and the two words would change what the rule is.
And then you get rear-ended by the driver behind you who doesn’t expect you to stop in the middle of the road when traffic is flowing.
Or you decide the person is not going to go, so you start up again right as the person abruptly attempts to exit the parking lot and you both collide (or you have to jam on your brakes to avoid a collision, causing you the driver behind you to rear-end you once again).
This is why is best to take your right-of-way if traffic is moving, IMHO. I might slow down and give the person room to enter the road ahead of me, but stopping is a bad idea, in my experience.
I may have already bitched about this. But we are getting a solar system installed. It’s pretty much all done.
Of course a lot of emails are involved with timing, inspections and whatnot. This has been going on since August. OK, we have to wait for county inspectors and lots of stuff.
BUT. I’m the boots on the ground here. I’m the guy that will answer the door. I’m the guy that works from home so I’m always here.
Sometimes they send me a notice about work/inspections. Sometimes the send that to my wife.
We have told them FOUR times to just contact me because I’m running this show. But no, they send to whomever. So my wife and I have to do this grade school game of telephone to figure out what in the heck is up. Did you get that email/text/phone call? Umm, what? Driving me freaking crazy.
Just chose ONE person as your contact. I don’t even care at this point. But don’t sometimes contact my wife, and sometimes contact me. GGAAAAAAA.
A while back Mrs. Cheesesteak setup our Amazon account with delivery instructions to “put by the back door” or some such thing to avoid porch pirates. The result being that deliveries were sometimes at the back door, sometimes at the back of the house by the left side, sometimes at the back by the right side, sometimes inside the (short unlocked) fence gate, sometimes outside the fence gate, and most often right by the front door. I never knew where to look for a package, you’d check the order and find it was delivered, so you look out the front door, not there, look out the back door, not there, go put on your shoes and circle the house to find it in some random place.
Absolute chaos!
Oh, I know it sucks. I ordered an electric piano. I didn’t see the notice that it was delivered. I did notice it was delivered when I saw it blocking our driveway. 170lbs of piano in driveway. Luckily, I have a helpful neighbor, and I have a hand truck (It was amazing he was here in 5 minutes)
But @Cheesesteak . That situation has me chuckling. I’m sure it’s a pain though.
Request do not propagate through companies sometimes. And then there is the problem with lazy delivery, and misunderstanding. It’s still sort of funny. When everyyou get something, you have to go on a Treasure Hunt.
I have a subscription to CNN so I can read the “For Subscribers Only” articles. On the phone app, I will tap on one of these stories and it will tell me all the ways I can subscribe so I can read the article. I then have to tap on “My Account” and go back to the article before it will let me read it. Notice that I did not have to enter my username or password or do anything else…I just have to open the “My Account” screen after tapping on the article. Drives me nuts.
Ah… yet another tiny annoyance in a world of “death by a thousand cuts”
I find it super annoying when there is a fun site that posts entertaining stories and has a list of cool things from around the web that they have chosen.
I’m not talking about spam or advertising; this is more of the “here’s some other cool things you might like to read” kind of thing, with articles that they chose to link to.
Half of the time when I click the link I’m taken to a paywalled site. Don’t bother putting up links to awesome articles if they are from paywalled sites. No, I am not getting a subscription to the NY Times AND Vanity Fair AND the LA Times AND CNN, and so on and so on.
That’s it. Just a quibble.
Not on websites, but I got that in my Google news feed on my phone. There’s only a picture, a (often inane, but sometimes interesting) headline and the link, but you can’t tell if it leads to a paywalled source or not. Makes me stabby.
minor7flat5, have you looked at what publications your library can give you access to? My library has online access to many of the major newspapers and magazines.
Some of them are probably available, but the point is that the author didn’t have the basic consideration of either indicating they are paywalled or not posting them. Again, I’m not talking about advertising or spammy “you might also like” footers on the page.
Posters on this site will almost always indicate if a link is to a paid article.
Is it a real issue? Nope. That’s why it’s in this thread.
Yeah, that’s one of (but not the only) reason I don’t subscribe to very many pay sites. In order to be noticeably more convenient for me, click-on-other-peoples-link-wise, I’d have to be subscribed to a dozen or so, and then still I’d occasionally get hit with a paywall.
It almost makes me long for the days of outrageously bundled cable packaging, which at least centralizes the pay point. Maybe my ideal would be one central website where you could add or drop subscriptions, but pick and choose which ones you subscribe to. So you wouldn’t have to do the whole subscribe-unsubscribe rigamarole for each one of them.
The “I just got a delivery, need to play Treasure Hunt to find it” aggravates me too. At least I can get some warning if the delivery photo does not show my rather distinctive doormat or if I didn’t get a picture.
I doubt the Walmart delivery people really appreciate that all caps line in my delivery instructions about how we live on the ground floor, so don’t deliver upstairs. They should take that up with the guy who kept delivering to 251 when I live in 152, since my bad back and hips did not enjoy trips up a steepish, none-too-solid-feeling set of stairs to retrieve heavy items (the problems wrangling heavy objects are why I get so much delivered in the first place).
The pic helped me when they left my package at my neighbor’s across the path from me.
Yep, what is worse is News aggregators who mostly link to paywalled papers, etc.
Yep. And then the clickbait headlines with stuff like “Famous Rock star of the 70’s health condition” where the name would take up less space- and it turns out either not all that famous or something not serious.
That has happened.
I really misinterpreted this at first.