Minor things that bother you

[vdeane]

^^^

Pooing is cool...or sometimes really burning hot.

Hearing about other people's bathroom habits. TMI! I mean, I get diarrhea every once in a while. I'm sure nobody else wants to hear about me having exploding shits all over the toilet.

And yet this thread exists:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=4969.150

Wasn't there also a (since deleted) thread where people were posting pictures of their bowel movements?  Or was that somewhere else?

[Rothman]

^^^

Pooing is cool...or sometimes really burning hot.

Hearing about other people's bathroom habits. TMI! I mean, I get diarrhea every once in a while. I'm sure nobody else wants to hear about me having exploding shits all over the toilet.

And yet this thread exists:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=4969.150

Wasn't there also a (since deleted) thread where people were posting pictures of their bowel movements?  Or was that somewhere else?

Wut.

That couldn't have been here...could it?

[kphoger]

How about, when your wife finishes the last roll of toilet paper in the bathroom and doesn't bring more in.

Wow, and here I thought that was a male thing.

Oh no, wait, the male thing is to unwrap the next roll but still refuse to throw away the spent tube and replace it—instead just putting the new roll on the back of the toilet.

[Rothman]

How about, when your wife finishes the last roll of toilet paper in the bathroom and doesn't bring more in.

Wow, and here I thought that was a male thing.

Oh no, wait, the male thing is to unwrap the next roll but still refuse to throw away the spent tube and replace it—instead just putting the new roll on the back of the toilet.

That's not what I call the male thing at all.

[kphoger]

That's not what I call the male thing at all.

What do you call the male thing?  A wee-wee?

[bm7]

There used to be a Minecraft mod called TooManyItems, abbreviated TMI. It became obsolete when Creative Mode was added, although somehow it's still being updated.

It was still updated as it's not redundant, because 1. you can use it in survival for looking up items/recipes, and 2. it supports items from mods. Although TMI hasn't been updated in years, there's a similar mod named Just Enough Items that's regularly updated.

[Rothman]

I gave up on Minecraft after the bees...and after my kids grew out of it.

[JayhawkCO]

I played Minesweeper and Starcraft. Never Minecraft.

[bm7]

I gave up on Minecraft after the bees...and after my kids grew out of it.

I haven't played it in a few years, and now I can't because, back on the topic of minor things that bother you: I lost access to my account when they made everyone move to a Microsoft account.

I have an old account from before they even required an email to register. You can't use those accounts to play the game anymore without converting it into a Microsoft account, and to do that it sends an email to your account's email... which it doesn't have one. The only way to fix that is to contact their support, but they need proof that you purchased the game, specifically the invoice/receipt number sent in an email which by now is long gone as I don't even have the email account I used back then. And I really don't want to pay Microsoft $30 to buy it again when it's the fault of their own bad design decision.

[dlsterner]

Wasn't there also a (since deleted) thread where people were posting pictures of their bowel movements?  Or was that somewhere else?

Wut.

That couldn't have been here...could it?

I seem to recall, years back, being told of a site called "ratemypoo.com" - maybe that's what came to mind?  (Not gonna make a hyperlink.  Just because.  Ick.)

[kkt]

How about, when your wife finishes the last roll of toilet paper in the bathroom and doesn't bring more in.

This is the one fault that I have found with my wife.

That's pretty bad.  What kind of example is she setting for the kids?

[roadman65]

I remember once when it was National Pancake Day at ZiHOP when I worked there. One lady was pissed at the poor service she got. She was with her hubby and kids and protested when she left by emptying all the syrups on the table. I'm sure if you been to IHOP, you know the syrups are left on the tables.

So this lady not only showed her own kids that tantrums are okay for people to have when they have a setback, but she still complained afterwards to the managers about her experience and reported the said server.

[kkt]

Wow.

If you expect 5 star service, going to Ihop is a mistake.

[kphoger]

I remember once when it was National Pancake Day at ZiHOP when I worked there. One lady was pissed at the poor service she got. She was with her hubby and kids and protested when she left by emptying all the syrups on the table. I'm sure if you been to IHOP, you know the syrups are left on the tables.

So this lady not only showed her own kids that tantrums are okay for people to have when they have a setback, but she still complained afterwards to the managers about her experience and reported the said server.

Wait, I'm confused.  Was this at ZiHOP or IHOP?

[Max Rockatansky]

Penny for your thoughts on service at Denny's?

[geek11111]

Being asked "Can I take this chair?" in most situations.

"Your call will be monitored for training purposes."
(Sometimes, followed by "Visit double you double you double you dot example dot com slash privacy to see how we protect your privacy.")

"We updated our EULA."

"Rate your stay at xxxxxx", or, "How's your experience with us?"

Requirement to change password periodically.

The month names in Roman languages — my (grand)parents always need to ask me what month a, say, "Apr" is.
12 hour clock on a screen full of time values, especially in airports, or ticket booking apps, where any time in a day are almost equally possible. (But fine with those in regular 9-5 operating places, though)
Imperial units, and those non-American people who talk to me using imperial units.


DST in southern area — it takes until early May to recover the 1 hour delay of sunrise, and the latest sunrise in a year occurs in early March rather than late December.


So se sonsisues

[epzik8]

Anyone in this thread mentioned the it's/its and who's/whose issues yet?

[ZLoth]

"Your call will be monitored for training purposes."
(Sometimes, followed by "Visit double you double you double you dot example dot com slash privacy to see how we protect your privacy.")

Along with "Please listen closely as our options have recently changed.". Uh, no, they have remained the same for the past ten years.

[jeffandnicole]

"Your call will be monitored for training purposes."
(Sometimes, followed by "Visit double you double you double you dot example dot com slash privacy to see how we protect your privacy.")

Along with "Please listen closely as our options have recently changed.". Uh, no, they have remained the same for the past ten years.

PennDOT:  Just 10 years?  Our Old Exit Number signage is twice that.

[geek11111]

"Your call will be monitored for training purposes."
(Sometimes, followed by "Visit double you double you double you dot example dot com slash privacy to see how we protect your privacy.")

Along with "Please listen closely as our options have recently changed.". Uh, no, they have remained the same for the past ten years.

I would say, the designer of the IVR system definitely know these are annoying, but just using this annoyance to filter out those who are patient enough and truly needs to call them.

[Scott5114]

Oh no, wait, the male thing is to unwrap the next roll but still refuse to throw away the spent tube and replace it—instead just putting the new roll on the back of the toilet.

See, that's what my wife does, so it'd be news to her that that's the male thing to do. In fact, she would usually get a collection of six or seven spent tubes in the bathroom before I'd sigh and cart them all off to the recycling bin for her.

The way our apartment in Nevada is set up now, we naturally each have our own bathroom and neither of us has any reason to go into the other one. It's nice not having to care about whatever's going on in there. (At least until we make friends here, because her bathroom is the one that's more naturally accessible from the living room.)

[geek11111]

Oh no, wait, the male thing is to unwrap the next roll but still refuse to throw away the spent tube and replace it—instead just putting the new roll on the back of the toilet.

See, that's what my wife does, so it'd be news to her that that's the male thing to do. In fact, she would usually get a collection of six or seven spent tubes in the bathroom before I'd sigh and cart them all off to the recycling bin for her.

The way our apartment in Nevada is set up now, we naturally each have our own bathroom and neither of us has any reason to go into the other one. It's nice not having to care about whatever's going on in there. (At least until we make friends here, because her bathroom is the one that's more naturally accessible from the living room.)

Why you moved from Oklahoma to Nevada?

[kkt]

I remember once when it was National Pancake Day at ZiHOP when I worked there. One lady was pissed at the poor service she got. She was with her hubby and kids and protested when she left by emptying all the syrups on the table. I'm sure if you been to IHOP, you know the syrups are left on the tables.

So this lady not only showed her own kids that tantrums are okay for people to have when they have a setback, but she still complained afterwards to the managers about her experience and reported the said server.

Wait, I'm confused.  Was this at ZiHOP or IHOP?

Maybe I'm confused.  I thought ZIHOP was a typo.  There's a breakfast restaurant called that?

[kkt]

How about, when your wife finishes the last roll of toilet paper in the bathroom and doesn't bring more in.

Wow, and here I thought that was a male thing.

Oh no, wait, the male thing is to unwrap the next roll but still refuse to throw away the spent tube and replace it—instead just putting the new roll on the back of the toilet.

Um... no... this male's thing is to replace the used up role with a new one and dispose of the core in the recycling like it should be.

[Scott5114]

Why you moved from Oklahoma to Nevada?

There are two main reasons. The first is that my wife works in the casino gaming industry, and had worked for all of the main employers in that industry in the Oklahoma City area and found them to be not a good fit for her. When looking for jobs in casino gaming, Las Vegas is the obvious place to start, so we started looking into the pay scales and found out that she'd get a 60% raise just by moving to Nevada, and the cost of living is really not that much higher. My wife is now employed by one of the large casino operators here, and the working environment is like night and day—her new company is very supportive and everyone there seems focused on helping her grow as an employee and be comfortable there. That's just not in the work culture in Oklahoma, which seems like it's fixated on the idea of "sink or swim".

The second reason is that the politics of Oklahoma have basically become intolerable for us and we needed to leave. (Please note: I am not inviting a debate here, I am just answering the question why I moved, and besides, it would be pointless to debate; all my stuff's in Nevada now, so what's done is done.) The tipping point that first led me to consider moving out was that I spent much of 2021 working on establishing a cannabis farm in rural Oklahoma, which involved both a lot of physical grunt work and a lot of paperwork. I had to address the city council and basically argue for me and my partners' right to start the farm, and we were successful. Then, in 2022, Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill that placed a moratorium on granting any new cannabis farm licenses. That basically killed any prospect of us getting funding for operations, and thus all of the time and money we'd already spent on the farm was a waste. All because some doofus that looks like a side character in an Archie comic wanted to score a cheap political point at our expense. That experience made it personal—the state of Oklahoma had directly harmed me, and it couldn't care less. If Oklahoma didn't care about me, why should I keep paying to support it with my tax money? And if it could do that to my business, who knows what other sorts of possibilities it was destroying by blindly thrashing around for political reasons?

Furthermore, although my wife and I are a cis married couple, both of us identify as LGBT. While the chances of it directly affecting us are low because we're in a male/female marriage, the viciously anti-LGBT climate at 23rd and Lincoln made both of us feel uncomfortable. And we see no sign of cooler heads prevailing as they often do in other states when one side or the other gets too extreme (in fact, things seem to have gotten worse just in the month since we left). Given that the party in power in Oklahoma is so deeply entrenched, any attempt at trying to fix the problem from the inside seemed like a waste of effort, so the only recourse left was to vote with our feet.

Also the signs fucking suck and I was tired of looking at them.