What cheeses me off

[AustraliaPoochie]

If you turn off "notifications" on the modern smartphone, (they never existed on my earlier "dumb" phones, ie, basic ones from the early 2000s (when phones were phones and not mini computers), does that mean that the receiving of missed calls won't get notified.
Remember the nokia 3310/3210.
I am quite a lazy sort of thing, turning off notifications, could be good, but I have never tried it.
Turning it off could mean, missing missed call notification, on the one hand, and also on the other hand, no notification pling of a spammer/scammer calling from a new mobile phone number, or a fake linkt sms.

 

[p--and--t]

If you turn off "notifications" on the modern smartphone, (they never existed on my earlier "dumb" phones, ie, basic ones from the early 2000s (when phones were phones and not mini computers), does that mean that the receiving of missed calls won't get notified.
Remember the nokia 3310/3210.
I am quite a lazy sort of thing, turning off notifications, could be good, but I have never tried it.
Turning it off could mean, missing missed call notification, on the one hand, and also on the other hand, no notification pling of a spammer/scammer calling from a new mobile phone number, or a fake linkt sms.

Notifications can be controlled on an app by app basis usually, at least on the iPhone, and should not effect SMS or Calls (unless you turn off "all" notifications).

My issue is the subject matter filter inside the ABC app doesn't work.

 

[JohnK]

Notifications can be controlled on an app by app basis usually, at least on the iPhone, and should not effect SMS or Calls (unless you turn off "all" notifications).

My issue is the subject matter filter inside the ABC app doesn't work.

This is Google too.

Liverpool plays West Ham so I follow the updates and look at Liverpool news. Then a few days later West Ham plays and I get notifications.

No, no, not West Ham. I don't care what West Ham is doing. I am specifically checking Liverpool not West Ham. Same thing happens for next match and next match and so on.

I have to keep switching notifications that have somehow been turned on without my consent but I'm sure they would argue that if I'm using their app/website then I've consented to anything they throw at me.

 

[gaz0303]

..... when people try to open the doors to the showers at MEL J lounge without noticing the little red thingy on the handle that indicates that the shower is occupied ... in the 7 mins that I spent in the shower at least 5 people tried to open the door ... jeez folks, look at the red thingy on the handle ... it's not that hard ...

From the other side, what cheeses me off are those tiny, minimal red/green indicators that show a facility is in use or not. For the 8% off us with red/green colour blindness, it’s impossible to tell.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Not only that, its also out of the way, under the handle.
They should also have one at head height, like what they do in some places, ie, a slide system, "occupied/not occupied" with a flip.
The handle can also block/obscure the view of the green or red sign.
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[Quickstatus]

5 people tried to open the door

it’s impossible to tell.

Old school method called "Knock"?

 

[UP4014]

OK, if we are doing haircut stories - what really cheesed me off when I lived in a rural town in Québec was when I went to the barber, sat down in the chair and he put the drape around me. I only then discovered that he only had the use of one arm and used an electric clipper for just about everything -sort of like a hedge trimmer.

After that, it was Montréal, no matter how long it was between visits there.

I have have a taxi story with a one armed taxi driver. For another time.

 

[Forg]

I have have a taxi story with a one armed taxi driver. For another time.

Ooh, my dad had a story about a one-armed cook in a remote mining camp who used to make really yummy meatballs under his armpit!!

 

[Hvr]

Ooh, my dad had a story about a one-armed cook in a remote mining camp who used to make really yummy meatballs under his armpit!!

Sounds like a story from the movie "Sunday too far away".

 

[VPS]

I was going to block out their number plate but I don't think they deserve it

 

[Guvner]

 

[Forg]

I was going to block out their number plate but I don't think they deserve it

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It’s OK … they’re in a Range Rover … unless the roadside service person was able to fix it, they needed to find an alternate way home.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I don't have a disabled permit, I don't drive, never have held a driving licence.
1).People who do not have a disabled sticker or sign in their rear view mirror, and parked in a disabled slot/spot.
2).Me getting a linkt "fake" fine even though I have never driven on a Vic/Qld road/NSW one for that matter.

 

[Ade]

My barber brings me beer.

The Tommy Guns in CBR (or any other TG I have been to) city offers a free bevvie with a cut or shave.

 

[mrsterryn]

1).People who do not have a disabled sticker or sign in their rear view mirror, and parked in a disabled slot/spot.

Never actually thought of putting it on the back window . Though I do have to say I am one of those annoying drivers who reverses in a spot.
Mr T has a mobility pass . He keeps it with him so it goes on either car. When he is driving his car he puts it on the front window his side. When he is the passenger in my car he puts it on the passenger side. On rare occasions when I am doing hospital runs with him and I have the pass , it goes on the driver's side

 

[Captain Halliday]

I am one of those annoying drivers who reverses in a spot.

Not annoying… safer!

Reversing into a car park safer, more efficient for driver and pedestrians - ABC News

amp.abc.net.au

 

[Ade]

….. those that listen to songs on their speaker phone in a train carriage at 0015 hours, when the whole carriage is (or at least trying to) sleep ….

….. and those that fit the above description, give you the stink eye when called out on their actions …

Oh, and might I add, the song that was being listened to is a very fast, raunchy, bells and whistles, bring the thunder down to earth number from a recently released movie … very, very explicit lyrics … considered not suitable to be played in public … headphone definitely recommended

 

[TheRealTMA]

Never actually thought of putting it on the back window . Though I do have to say I am one of those annoying drivers who reverses in a spot.
Mr T has a mobility pass . He keeps it with him so it goes on either car. When he is driving his car he puts it on the front window his side. When he is the passenger in my car he puts it on the passenger side. On rare occasions when I am doing hospital runs with him and I have the pass , it goes on the driver's side

Actually, I thought a disabled permit has to be in the LHS of the front window, or front anyway.

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Not annoying… safer!

Reversing into a car park safer, more efficient for driver and pedestrians - ABC News

amp.abc.net.au

No, extremely annoying! I hate waiting for "these" people in a crowded car park.

 

[Forg]

No, extremely annoying! I hate waiting for "these" people in a crowded car park.

But you’d be waiting for them as they left the parking-spot, if the car-park was crowded and they drove in forwards.

Reversing in is about planning, doing work early … leaving that extra work for later is to delay time & effort for later and hence introduces stress due to all that future effort hanging over your head like a guillotine … how can anyone live with a guillotine perpetually hanging over one’s head, it’d take years off one’s life!!

 

[JessicaTam]

Actually, I thought a disabled permit has to be in the LHS of the front window, or front anyway.

Some hang from the rear view mirror which I prefer as it is quite obvious.