Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

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L to R: VG, me

ha

i used to get massively ia about powerpoints that were empty but were left switched on

I don't understand any of what you're saying, VG.
- do you know what the switch controls?
- what's it doing set in the middle?
- what are Oz switches like?

up is off, down is on

...really?

no. unless this is a bottom-of-the-world joek

when i was a kid the light over the stairs was controlled by switches at the bottom and the top. so depending on the order of use, you might have to flip the switch *down* to turn the light *on* or vice versa, which i found troubling, as up should always = on.

both times in 7 elevens and both times for like a bar of chocolate

ah the cashless society

If so, that's objectively -- well maybe not wrong but counterintuitive. Up = more = on and vice versa.

Xp

A recurring nightmare I had as a kid was that light switches weren't working, or worked sporadically. Realizing just now that the same anxiety is behind my current recurring nightmare of a computer or point-of-sale touch screen that is almost normal but off wrong in some small but fundamental way.

going back to jjj's op, btw, someone made something kind of interesting with the where's george data

montana so lonely

no. unless this is a bottom-of-the-world joek

i am surrounded by billions of light switches that say otherwise

(i was answering je55e's question with a straight face)

huh. you'd think i'd remember that, but i guess i'm not as ~uptight~ about things as i once was

maybe it's the other way in hotels

and the brothels

in australian brothels the men have vaginas

Sunny says she had to get used to not being able to slap down a switch to illuminate a room. When I went down there, the switches threw me off more than the roads.

when i was a kid the light over the stairs was controlled by switches at the bottom and the top. so depending on the order of use, you might have to flip the switch *down* to turn the light *on* or vice versa, which i found troubling, as up should always = on.

We've got three switches that control the same lights in the house. I gave up long ago trying to have two of them down when turned off.

yeah we have top/bottom stair switches too. I'm glad I don't have OCD or it'd drive me mad.

we have this terrible terrible public transport ticketing system called myki. it is actually worse than death. that is not the innocuous bit. when you get on a tram or bus or whatever, you have to tap your card and hold it until the light comes on. not wave it, not move it, not hold it on an angle. you must tap it exactly in the right way. that is not the innocuous bit. when you buy credit online, you have to wait for anything from one to four days before you can use it, and you don't actually know whether your purchase went through until you try to use it on public transport. that is not the innocuous bit. it gives you a reference number to check your transaction, but there's no place on the entire site where you can enter that number. that is not the innocuous bit. the system has only been in place about a year and a half, and already something like half the myki tap-on boxes don't work. that is not the innocuous bit.

the innocuous bit is this: when you try tapping on with a broken machine, there's ALWAYS someone who is trying to be helpful by jumping on you and going 'oh that machine is broken'. but half of the machines are broken, so this week alone seriously like fifteen people leapt on me going 'oh that machine it's broken'. let's assume they're all broken, hey, and just god damned leave me alone.

it's basically the same thing as when you want to take a very quick self-portrait on your phone and there's ALWAYS someone who actually stops you because they're all like 'i'll take it for you! no it's fine! i can take it! let me take it!'

FUCK

OFF

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epic

why is it called myki

because it's my key

geddit

even the pun is shit

nice

if you feel that the entire system is designed to specifically fuck with you, i agree for once

it is actually designed to fuck with us

motherfucking
yamgobblers
kiss
it

I have avoided the registered card/prepay thing, as it clearly doesnt work the way it should. I have a blank card and I just top it up at 7-11 or the station with random coinage every few days.

The readers being slow as shit is irritaing but I *have* noticed a little trick I have been meaning to try and get out to people: at station barriers, you dont actuall need to wait til the other person's finished going thru and the gate closes again before you tap the card on. You can do it right after they do! And the gate opens in half the time as a result! If everyone knew that it'd speed things up massively.

...the non-gate readers at suburban stations otoh are pieces of shit. FOr a whole week balaclava only had ONE machine working. When theres 45 people waiting to tap on and the train arrives, they just give up and tell you to get on the train without paying. Haha.

the first phase of the myki marketing campaign was all bright colours and happy fonts and stuff like 'myki is so great, everything is great with myki'

the second phase was the same happy colours and fonts but just telling you how not to tap on e.g. 'don't wave your card', ''don't double-tap your card', 'don't do this don't do that'

the third phase (i.e. now) is the same happy colours and fonts but the messages are 'you have to use myki now, suck it up'

i'm expecting phase four to be basically just 'fuck off dickhead' on posters

you dont actuall need to wait til the other person's finished going thru and the gate closes again before you tap the card on. You can do it right after they do!

oh god i'm too scared to try anything like this in case it fails

FOr a whole week balaclava only had ONE machine working.

that week suuuuuuucked

How do we never see each other at the station wtf

ikr

HAPPINESS IN MYKI

I would totally go for a trent reznor-themed myki campaign with pigs heads on sticks.

'you bring me closer to jordanville station'

I'm still confused about light switches in Australia, are they sideways? Push-buttons?

An entire nation of dimmer knobs?

coin-op?

They're like kangaroos, but they're reptiles, they is.

non-myki, but people who need to ask a lot of IMPORTANT and CHALLENGING questions at what should be the goddam end of the meeting

stop it

when you buy credit online, you have to wait for anything from one to four days before you can use it, and you don't actually know whether your purchase went through until you try to use it on public transport.

The CTA's touch pass system takes about 3-4 days for a payment to be useable if you start from $0. It used to be that if you tried to use your card before the funds were available, it would deactivate your account, then you'd have to call them, be chastised for jumping the gun, and wait another 3-4 days. I think they've changed it now, or maybe I just don't let my card lapse anymore.

For some reason, there is no 3-4 day waiting period if you pay in person at their offices.

It's not all bad though - their bumbling meant I got to ride for free from August through February b/c my unfunded card kept working.

and you don't actually know whether your purchase went through until you try to use it on public transport.

Waitup I didnt see this bit. adam you know theres those blue status machines you can use to see what the card's balance currently is and view usage history, right?

Also our light switches as stated above = down for on, up for off.

so cute, but such savages

What is the world-wide norm?

sun goes up, sun goes down

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It's in the Aussie toilets where you'll find the three seashells.