Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[Ed.Kloonk]

And some of the results are so stupid . I cant believe that people actual search for those things.

I suspect a bit of the 'ole Boaty McBoatface syndrome might be in play.

[PlainName]

My latest pet peeve is the Cookies settings now present in every new page you visit.

Addon for pretty much all browsers:

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

Basically, it just presses the buttons for you so you don't have to do a thing.

[Ed.Kloonk]

My latest pet peeve is the Cookies settings now present in every new page you visit.

Addon for pretty much all browsers:

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

Basically, it just presses the buttons for you so you don't have to do a thing.

Was going to suggest this though I don't use it myself and prolly should. Couldn't remember the name of it and meant to come back to it tomorrow if noone had mentioned it. Good thing you're here! 

Now, if only there were a plug-in to enable me to figure out who you are talking to when you quote posts...

 

 

[Labrat101]

My latest pet peeve is the Cookies settings now present in every new page you visit.

Addon for pretty much all browsers:

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

Basically, it just presses the buttons for you so you don't have to do a thing.

Now, if only there were a plug-in to enable me to figure out who you are talking to when you quote posts...

 

 

Try Trending  Search  for sure its between
Peanut butter & can oozlum bird really fly backwards          (edited Typo)

[themadhippy]

My latest pet peeve is the Cookies settings now present in every new page you visit.

you can thank the eu's digital transparency laws or some such nonsense,its also why some us web sites are unavailable here in the uk.

[Sal Ammoniac]

My latest pet peeve is the Cookies settings now present in every new page you visit.

you can thank the eu's digital transparency laws or some such nonsense,its also why some us web sites are unavailable here in the uk.

Is the UK still following those EU laws post-Brexit?

[themadhippy]

Is the UK still following those EU laws post-Brexit?

But of course ,plus 1000's of others ,its only when they see a profit or a way of further stifling personal freedoms  do things get changed

[mansaxel]

Is the UK still following those EU laws post-Brexit?

They made all EU law UK law when they exited, the poor sods, because they had not the time to fix it first, and now the government is trying to drive all progress made through this legislation (which for the most parts is good for the public and bad for companies without a conscience ) away from the UK to make it as bad as the USA.

[rsjsouza]

My latest pet peeve is the Cookies settings now present in every new page you visit.

Addon for pretty much all browsers:

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

Basically, it just presses the buttons for you so you don't have to do a thing.

Thank you, dunkemhigh, but I will pass due to this assertive on their page: "sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do"

[PlainName]

I will pass due to this assertive on their page

Its only purpose is to get rid of the nagging dialogs, not protect you from anything.

If you're concerned about cookie usage you would normally have your browser set appropriately (or run a cookie managing extension), so whatever the website thinks it's allowed to do is meaningless - your local settings trump it.

[Labrat101]

Its only purpose is to get rid of the nagging dialogs, not protect you from anything.

OH shuks It wont work on the Mother-IN-Law 

[james_s]

I have a peeve that I find really annoying that the   Trending  Searches . on the Samsung Internet browser .
Even going to the setting and disabling them . Does not  work  .
And some of the results are so stupid . I cant believe that people actual search for those things.

 How do giraffes Sleep .?      Well 
 what color is a dinosaur .   
inventor of peanut butter      
how long to boil an Egg         
 

I have no idea how long to boil an egg, I don't like boiled eggs and don't think I've ever boiled one. If somebody asked me to boil them an egg I'd have to look up how to do it.

[PlainName]

If somebody asked me to boil them an egg I'd have to look up how to do it

You'd find there are many different times to boil an egg, even to achieve the same effect. It would wind you up when they say to bring the pan to the boil then turn off and let it cool - that may work for their pan but yours will have a different amount of water, be a different size or style, and your cooker will let it cool differently depending on if it's gas (quick-ish) or electric (slower). Fortunately, eggs are quite forgiving and the only way you can really go wrong is by microwaving them (very briefly, it has to be said).

But there are some useful toys around. Basically, you measure water into them, shove in one to a dozen eggs and turn it on. They can be very consistent and the stupidly cheap and nasty one I acquired a long time ago still works perfectly. My missus even compliments me each time on how perfectly the yolk turns out.

[Labrat101]

Nothing smells so good as boiled Eggs ..

[armandine2]

or feels so bad as walking around IKEA - the other day I found a short cut out of the store, however the trip was a wasted one as the stock to complete the bookshelf was not available.

[andy3055]

The one thing that makes me stark raving mad is when people do not read simple instructions they have available to them, instead of making a post here and snapping at others who point them to it. Surely, we all have things to do in our lives and expecting to be know it all s is not fair. On top of that to snap at others? I just stop contributing to the topic when I see that behavior.
There are some others from native English speaking countries, who does not take the time to spell check or punctuate, making me scratch my head and read many times before I can make some sense of what they write.
Is that all fair?

[Ed.Kloonk]

There are some others from native English speaking countries, who does not take the time to spell check or punctuate

I'm sorry. 

[Labrat101]

There are some others from native English speaking countries, who does not take the time to spell check or punctuate, making me scratch my head and read many times before I can make some sense of what they write.
Is that all fair?

Yup .. My Grammar is not so Hot,  But yours is also 
 English speaking countries, who do not take the time to spell check or punctuate, makes me scratch my head, having to read over and over before I can make some sense of what they are trying to write ! ( or Say)

Is what I believe you meant .

[RJSV]

   'OOZALEM BIRD'.     !!!     WOW,

Flys Backwards?...Really ?
...now I really GOT TO Google that...

[Labrat101]

   'OOZALEM BIRD'.     !!!     WOW,

Flys Backwards?...Really ?
...now I really GOT TO Google that...

Sorry about the Spelling ..  your oozlum bird .

[PlainName]

To save everyone else 3' 30" of their time, there is no flying birds or anything, just this:

The oozlum bird, also spelt ouzelum, is a legendary creature found in Australian and British folk tales and legends. Some versions have it that, when startled, the bird will take off and fly around in ever-decreasing circles until it manages to fly up itself, disappearing completely, which adds to its rarity. Other sources state that the bird flies backwards so that it can admire its own beautiful tail feathers, or because while it does not know where it is going, it likes to know where it has been. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "[a] mythical bird displaying ridiculous behaviour" and speculates that the word could have been suggested by the word ouzel, meaning a blackbird. The earliest citation recorded by the dictionary dates from 1858.

That's it.

Oh, and "This video is targeted to blind users." But we aren't such and the entire text is there up front for copy'n'pasting.

[AlbertL]

Online forms with overly-restrictive (and unstated) field validations due to either obsessive fear of SQL injection, or ignorance about the range of valid entries.  I remember one form which didn't allow periods in a postal address field, so the commonly-written abbreviations like "St." and "Rd." were rejected - without explanation.  Another form didn't allow hyphens in the domain portion of an email address, giving only a vague (and erroneous) "Invalid email address" message.

[Ranayna]

The comment of @dunkemhigh relates to something that i really do not like, and that sadly also happenes here a lot:
Posting of random videos without any kind of description or context. Most often the thread titel is just the video title, or something like "You need to see this!".

People, please write a couple of sentences what the video you posted is about.

[rdl]

On a similar note, I have 3rd party scripts and frames blocked by default so if there's a copy/paste link to a youtube video, I don't see anything but an empty post. I wish the forum could just show a text link instead of the embedded video.

[Kasper]

When the dumbest person in the room thinks they are the smartest.  What makes it extra annoying is when they use volume to convince the next dumbest people in the room.

My favorite example of the first part of that: years ago in philosophy class we would discuss moral dilemmas.  The classic, would you take action to save 5 people even though your action results in harming 1 person.  The prof would give various hypothetical scenarios to describe the finer details and help us picture it.  One loudmouth would always try to pick holes in the hypothetical to weasel out of answering the actual question.  For example, 'I'd save everyone by running really fast and yelling really loud to get them all off the train tracks.' 

Then the prof would say, 'no you're really far away' and then they'd go back and forth ad nauseam.  That's when I'd start chatting with my neighbor.  That was the only class I've ever had chalk thrown at me for chatting.