Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

Fair enough, I totally understand that *ANY* item left plugged in with the switch on at the mains could present a risk, but the poster singled out hairdriers like they pose some unreasonable risk. If an individual has such a level of risk aversion then surely they should be switching everything off at the mains when not in use?

Heating elements are a special case. You’re trusting the flimsy little switch to not get stuck on, leaving it getting hot, but not drawing enough to blow the fuse.

Whereas your PC’s power supply is actually ‘off’ apart form the little 3.3V supply which connects MOBO-on/off switch. A fault in the lead or the AC side of the PSU would blow the fuse or RCD on your consumer unit.

One of our competitors burnt down when a kitchen appliance caught fire overnight. So now we have an air-gap policy where everything apart from the fridge and modem/router/nas is switched off and unplugged overnight. The fridge is probably actually fairly likely to catch fire, but there’s a risk/reward trade off Vs having a cup of tea in the morning.

Everything Lunge just said.

How can you reach pensionable age and still have no spacial awareness? Dopy bastards in shop doorways buttoning up their soluble children because it’s spitting, whilst the rest of Tesco forms an orderly queue waiting for them to **** off.

Why would that annoy you? There is absolutely no reason to switch them off at the socket after use – they aren’t even a phantom user of electricity.

I used to work with an ex-fireman who went on to become a fire safety officer. He encouraged everyone to switch off any appliance not designed to be on constantly. So I do switch off everything, TV, toaster, kettle, pc, etc.etc. When not in use. If that seems excessively risk averse to you… “shrugs”
And, as a matter of interest, the instructions for said hairdryer( and the toaster etc.) explicitly says it should be unplugged. I should perhaps have said that I never use the hairdryer hence singling it out.

When I’ve lost something and people try to “help” by naming random places and asking is it there?

Ah. Vegetarian in a restaurant being presented with a veggie-hostile menu. I know it’s well-meaning and all so I can’t complain, but sitting there with panic and embarrassment rising there’s always someone who leans across to help. “Well, there’s the paella… ” Yeah, thanks, I’m vegetarian not illiterate or blind.

For anyone enjoying this unburdening of angst, especially with regards to partners, I can recommend the Chris and Rosie Ramsey Show on iplayer or their podcast, Snog, Marry, Annoyed.

the instructions for said hairdryer( and the toaster etc.) explicitly says it should be unplugged.

I’d get a refund and buy something less dangerous. Anything “not designed to be on constantly” shouldn’t be legal to sell.

My mum unplugs the TV before going to bed at night. Because her mum did. Because IDK, something about thunderstorms? It’s absolutely potty. We have one of the safest, ludicrously over-engineered domestic electricity supplies on the planet.

whilst the rest of Tesco forms an orderly queue

People who call it Tescos or Tesco’s. Cougar thank you for being correct.

Unnecessary pedantry about spelling / grammar / pronunciation, we all know what you mean so what’s the point highlighting it.

I will contra those irritated by non-signallers with what appears to be a growing population on the roads who seem to signal far too early. Can see the retail park 200 yards away? Better get those bad boys a-flashing with no consideration of the three turnings between where you are and where you’re going and sail past the people waiting to pull out who now expect you to leave a nice gap in the traffic…

Most already mentioned. But people who drive next to my bumper because I’m not going enough over the speed limit, even near schools. Someone did that to me Saturday on the way to the supermarket we were both going to, so I tailgated him around the aisles and when asked wtf I was doing I explained.
Putin. It’s the 21st century you moron.

My mum unplugs the TV before going to bed at night. Because her mum did. Because IDK, something about thunderstorms?

It can happen, if lightening strikes close enough to your property. A thunderstorm fried my parents’ PC PSU once, although that was in France so it was a proper big storm. My Dad, an electrical engineer, always did this when storms were forecast when I was a kid. Of course he forgot that one time.

Obviously no point in doing this if storms aren’t forecast, which they rarely are.

the instructions for said hairdryer( and the toaster etc.) explicitly says it should be unplugged.

I’d get a refund and buy something less dangerous. Anything “not designed to be on constantly” shouldn’t be legal to sell.

I think partly it’s a habit thing. If you don’t unplug the hairdryer, then you possibly don’t unplug your straighteners either, and then IdleJon gets a burnt foot while stumbling about the bedroom in a half-sleep daze.

People who call it Tescos or Tesco’s. Cougar thank you for being correct.
+ Unnecessary pedantry about spelling / grammar / pronunciation, we all know what you mean so what’s the point highlighting it.

I have heard people talk about Tescos’s!

I put the caps back on, but I crush all the air out first. Putting the lids on prevents them from expanding again.

Incorrect, I’m afraid.

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https://plasticsrecycling.org/images/library/APR-Caps-On-FAQ.pdf

I used to work with an ex-fireman who went on to become a fire safety officer. He encouraged everyone to switch off any appliance not designed to be on constantly. So I do switch off everything, TV, toaster, kettle, pc, etc.etc. When not in use. If that seems excessively risk averse to you… “shrugs”

I *get* that if you are particularly risk averse (and have already said so in this thread) but to single out plugged in hairdryers as being a singular cause for anger and frustration is the odd thing – electrical items are either prone to catching fire and burning kittens alive or they are not.

He encouraged everyone to switch off any appliance not designed to be on constantly. So I do switch off everything, TV, toaster, kettle, pc, etc.etc

I’m pretty sure those things ARE designed to be left plugged in all the time, they aren’t actually on consantly. My kettle and toaster are completely de-activated when not in use; the switch that activates them is a physical switch breaking the circuit in exactly the same way that the switch at the wall does. You will not find a recommendation from the manufacturer to unplug them when not in use, and in this litigious society you can be sure they’d make it clear to you. Or, you know, design them not to catch fire when plugged in and not being used, which is what I think they went for.

The only stuff I unplug are power tools in the garage when I’m not using them or anything with a heater element in the garage. My heat gun for example could theoretically be knocked into an on position and sit there setting fire to stuff.

My own indecision about trivial things…..say, buying a USB cable on Amazon. There’s 3000 to choose from, just find one the correct length & buy it…..you really don’t need to spend an entire evening pontificating over whether the £4.97 lead is better value than the £5.00 lead even though it’s a brand you’ve never heard of & 3 reviews out of 2500 say it broke first time it was used…..

Dogs chasing me on my bike. I’ll ride off as fast as I can till it stops chasing me.

Top tip.
Something that isn’t moving can’t be chased.
I always stop and say hello. Nearly always calms the dog down straight away and I’ve not been bitten yet.*

*obviously a Chihuahua will have me leg off tomorrow.

My own indecision about trivial things…..say, buying a USB cable on Amazon. There’s 3000 to choose from, just find one the correct length & buy it…..you really don’t need to spend an entire evening pontificating over whether the £4.97 lead is better value than the £5.00 lead even though it’s a brand you’ve never heard of & 3 reviews out of 2500 say it broke first time it was used…..

Yes, this. Then I said that my time is far more valuable, and for items under £5 or where the differential is less than a couple of quid, I just click buy now and get the time back.

And then spend the time agonising if I’ve overpaid for 100 zip ties.

Wallops who loiter at zebra crossings
Are you going to cross or are ypu having a catch up with your friends from church
MGIF drivers who then wang their car at an angle into the kerb. Throbbers the lot of them.
People who dress explicitly to reveal their shite prison tattoos. Yes we can see you have a hideous thigh tatoo as your wearing silly short shorts in the rain, at 0800 on a cold February morning.

Vests on men who aren’t called John McLean

Remapped shit box cars and the weapons who drive them in 3rd gear with the sole sim of making the car backfire
Just drive up the road on balanced throttle and stop scaring all the local dogs, giving ex forces ptsd flashbacks and depriving night workers of much needed sleep
Tosspits. See also Harley Davison riders with even louder than std exhausts and a sticker thst says loud pipes save lives. Go screw each other. Quietly.

so I tailgated him around the aisles and when asked wtf I was doing I explained.

This seems like a disproportionately weird response, so even better. 🙂

Got called out to by a teenager yesterday that I’d gone through a red light on the mtb as he and his brother/mate were just about to cross.

I bleedin well didn’t! I’m a stickler for stopping/ waiting at red lights on the bike same as I am in a car.

It really angered me for some reason and I almost turned around to have a go at him…

Fortunately I was so knackered from riding up the drudge of a hill all I could muster was a slightly garbled “green!” as I trundled on.

The situation then irritated/annoyed me for the next km or so which is just ridiculous!

I then went on to question my own sanity as to whether id actually gone through a red light! Ffs.

but to single out plugged in hairdryers as being a singular cause for anger and frustration is the odd thing

The odd thing to me that you seem to want to press the point when the thread title mentions disproportionate anger.
To repeat, the reason I mentioned it is that I don’t use the bloody hairdryer so have to rely on someone else to turn it off…. which rarely happens even though she says she will.
Does that help?

So many things that resonate on this thread but the main one is the dishwasher.. by a country mile. If you offered my better half ten billion pounds to load the thing efficiently AND effectively she couldn’t do it. I’ve come to the conclusion it’s a pisstake and she knows it makes my teeth itch and so does it on purpose, there is no other explanation. She thinks I’m a sad man who is really interested in dishwashers (I mean I am sad but not in this way) but it’s the time cost that really gets me as I physically cannot set it away without intervening. Anyway, great opportunity to post the Jon Richardson bit about dishwashers:

This could easily be me and my wife.. and several other posters by the sounds of it!

On the toaster/kettle point above, both of ours have printed on the plug “Attended appliance. Unplug after use – fire risk”.

people trying to help me solve their IT problems by Googling stuff and telling me what they just read.  I understand they are trying to help and it shouldn’t wind me up but it does, especially since the bulk of stuff you arrive at on Google is junk

People who don’t shut cupboard doors all the way.
They push it..it gets to within an inch of being closed then something behind it stops it closing fully. So, instead of moving what is behind it and having a lovely kitchen full of flush cupboard doors, they just leave it sticking out and bugger off to mess with my head.

Incorrect, I’m afraid.

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Irrelevant, I don’t live in America.

In any case, I don’t have the room to throw away two-litre pop bottles that take up 2L of space. So either they lump it or it goes in general waste.

n the toaster/kettle point above, both of ours have printed on the plug “Attended appliance. Unplug after use – fire risk”.

What the actual great suffering **** is an “attended appliance”? That’s surely just arse-covering of the highest order. A toaster isn’t a gene splicer, it makes bread warm and brown. And who can forget the great Kettle Explosion Disasters of ’08?

Hell, I’m disproportionately cross by proxy right now. What an absolutely ludicrous state of affairs.

Chinese Sky lanterns.
Children (and their inconsiderate owners).
Guitarists playing with loads of reverb.

People who hold their mobile phone out in front of them on speaker when on a phone call. Has no one ever shown you how to use it ‘properly’?? <sigh>

Yes, they DO do it on TV a lot but that is so everyone watching can hear the conversation as a plot device.
If YOU do it don’t be surprised when I join in the conversation with your mum.

Stopping in doorways.

Not to mention stopping at the top of the escalator.

Adults saying “Hospickle”. Have ooh godda poorwy tum tum? Do ooh wanna bwokeded noseywose?

My dad used to say that. He’d get an “ikkle bokkle” of milk.

He’s dead now. Makes you think.

Village we live in was hit by a power surge in late 2020. Caused some minor fires and lots damaged appliances and boilers. The chippy shut for a few months. No one died but anyone who unplugged their toaster and kettle felt smug.

The fact the power grid have schemes set up to deal with fried appliances suggests it’s not exactly unheard of.

Not to mention stopping at the top of the escalator.

Or even worse, people who are traveling on the escalator, blocking it completely rather than standing to one side. With 50 people backed up behind them.

That is really next level ignorance!

I thought my dog-off-a-lead one was pretty irrational, but some of you are properly seething about life, huh?

Irrelevant, I don’t live in America.

In any case, I don’t have the room to throw away two-litre pop bottles that take up 2L of space. So either they lump it or it goes in general waste

just to satisfy you here’s the original article I read it on. From the BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Q0v4Dc6C3QVkkytbnpsCqV/recycling-are-we-getting-it-wrong

Everything posted so far plus being referred to as…mate, matey, pal, bud, chap, chum, fella, bucko, marra, gadge, squire, duck, luv.
All are ignorant forms of address.
The Roy Keane response to being addressed as mate is one I’ve used before – my name isn’t mate and I’m not your mate.
Last time I used that I was met with ‘how can I help you, sir‘?
Response was…you can’t; your attempt at sarcasm is laughable so makes you both ignorant and a failed comic; half wit.

Dog turd bags in the countryside.

Buying a brand new phone and having multiple software updates. I’m on about fifteen in the past 24hrs.

“for free”
Idiots. Been listening to too many euro sport types? Even worse then “for sure”.
You mean “free” as in “free of charge” or you mean “for nothing”
While we are at it, people who are impressed with Greggs. You get Poundland quality and the price of some poncy artisan bakery.
And that brings me on to any thing artisan.
And micro as in brewery.
And pubs that sell Cyder
And pubs that sell food. Alright we have to compromise so if it comes in a packet it will do at a push.
And anywhere that thinks that chips should be served in a stupid little galvanised bucket the size of a sherry glass.
And my bloody mother who only has dry, I mean DRY, sherry.
And my bloody father phoning to tell me his laptop is playing up again. Use the mouse I gave you not the sodding great fat fingers that can’t feel a damn thing and are all bent to buggery with arthritis. (His screen was upside down just now) CTRL,ALT, up arrow.
Mars bars in plastic. What was wrong with the waxed paper?
Anything wrapped in plastic.
Microwaving things in clingfilm and leaving that wrapped around the dish.
People who start threads that keep me up when I should be in bed.