What Irked You Today?

[FoMoCo66]

Had a little oopsie during marching band practice, slipped down a wet hill. Not proud of it, the thing was $100 and had a lot of tarnish, but at least it was straight.

[johnyrotten]

1 hour ago, FoMoCo66 said:

Had a little oopsie during marching band practice, slipped down a wet hill. Not proud of it, the thing was $100 and had a lot of tarnish, but at least it was straight.

That's rough man. I've seen videos of professionals repairing them, as a metal worker I look at musical instruments as works of art. No doubt that's gonna be costly.

[FoMoCo66]

58 minutes ago, johnyrotten said:

That's rough man. I've seen videos of professionals repairing them, as a metal worker I look at musical instruments as works of art. No doubt that's gonna be costly.

Yeah, might be expensive, but I have a guy. Never would I ever trust some place like west music, they charge out the nose.

Edited September 3 by FoMoCo66

[stinkybritches]

19 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Sound Mixing in New Movies.

Watching the last 4 Harry Potter movies.

Sound is apparently mixed for Theatre Use, not the Home.

It punches the Music way up while muting the dialog with the dialog constantly shifting from a medium mumble to almost silent...

Due to my tinnitus I almost always have to watch movies with the closed captioning on, but for movies made in the last few years, it is getting ridiculous......

And there is seemingly no way to reverse the sounds. Movie watching is just harder to do now.

Irks me greatly.

I feel your pain with the tinnitus. It sucks to have to read a movie while you are watching it. 

My wife and I recently bought a "cheap" Dolby Atmos sound bar and it's made quite a difference with movie dialogue. It's no longer buried under all the other sounds and musical score. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better.

[TonyK]

My wife has no problems with hearing but uses closed captioning all the time when she watches tv. I hate it so when we watch something together it's off.

[stavanzer]

We started using C.C. when we began to watch Chinese and Korean Soap Operas. Had to have it for that, since neither of us speaks the languages.

Then I started watching British, and Australian TV shows on Prime, and found that using C.C. made it much easier to understand them.

Now, It stays on for everything, but despite my Tinnitus and diminishing hearing I do like to try to hear sound and dialog. It's just the way the sound seems to be mixed on Modren Movies, with out a soundbar, the Loud's are too Loud, and the dialog is too soft.

Not sure why they do it.

[John M.]

My mechanic had to replace the alternator on my trusty 08 Corolla today but the bill wasn't as bad as I thought. And like some of the parts that I had replaced on the 97 Accord I had before, my mechanic speculated that it could have been installed at the factory. A testament to the quality of both Honda and Toyota. 

 

Plus, I had to reschedule the appointment at the local Toyota dealer so the problem with the front passenger airbag as part of the recall that I mentioned can be rectified from this Friday to Friday of next week. The GM informed me that we'll be more busy this Friday with mainly field trips so it's all hands on deck. I need to wait while the car is in the dealer's shop. I couldn't get a ride back and forth. 

[89AKurt]

Playing pseudo bureaucracy as a water district board member, I get to see *boring* infrastructure behind-the-scenes stuff.  ADOT (Arizona's highway kingdom) has forced us, the District, to pay for a *bore* hole test, where we were scheduled to *bore* under the highway to replace the water main going from the pump house on the east side, to the tanks on the west side.  We had a huge leak last year, I discovered it on a wild fluke.  Our temporary main is running through a box culvert, has shown that was a major leak for years.  So here we sit, waiting for the State to pull it's head out.  The crew tasked to do their job, wondered why we were wasting money.  Getting the specifications, as in where in lane 2, how deep, simple details back and forth with our Manager big waste of time and money.  Then, without having the results from the lab, they said we can proceed!  Seriously?  Ain't that sweet of them?  Here we are, the in the desert where there is no water and everyone is moving here anyway, found a monster leak, being screwed with just because.  No wonder nobody wants to volunteer to take my Secretary job away. 💦

[rattle can man]

The universe. it was against me whatever I was trying to do all day.

[gbdolfans]

Hi folks, I was in a large home improvement store yesterday looking for something like a weed eater with a blade instead of string. I need to clean out some brush and things like blackberry vines. I went to the area that had those items and everything was locked up behind steel bars. Could not see anything. I tried to find someone to help me and after searching awhile, went to customer service. They said they would call for help. I waited and waited and still no one came. I went back to CS and asked for help again. I heard them call over the pa and hoped to see a real person. After waiting again, I went to CS and told them they lost a nice sale.

I don't know what the item is called to look up. I guess I will go to my local store of a different brand. They are always helpful. I went to this other brand because I was in area.

Thanks for your time !!

[ranma]

Companies that discontinue popular food items! First was Kellogg's discontinued the Onion flavored Toasted's Crackers. Now Ritz since getting bought out now discontinued The Ritz Toasted everything chips! Both were popular selling products, and it showed when at the store they sold out before the other flavors!

[Ace-Garageguy]

Just bought a few pieces of steel strip and rectangular stock that would have been under $10 not that long ago, now well over $30.

I used to marvel at how cheap steel was, considering everything you could do with it.

I guess the universe was listening to my thoughts.

"We'll show him..."

Edited September 4 by Ace-Garageguy
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[peteski]

50 minutes ago, ranma said:

Companies that discontinue popular food items! First was Kellogg's discontinued the Onion flavored Toasted's Crackers. Now Ritz since getting bought out now discontinued The Ritz Toasted everything chips! Both were popular selling products, and it showed when at the store they sold out before the other flavors!

It would take a long time to mention all my favorite food items discontinued over the years.  I often kept parts of their packaging just to remind me how miss them.  As you mentioned, many seemed like they were good sellers, Then of course are the mega-mergers causing the combined company to drop some products.  Not happy about it.  My little world of pleasures is getting smaller and smaller.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, peteski said:

...My little world of pleasures is getting smaller and smaller.

Isn't that the truth.  

[slusher]

I’m going to have to get my hearing checked this fall and my left ear is the problem"…

[89AKurt]

13 hours ago, gbdolfans said:

Hi folks, I was in a large home improvement store yesterday looking for something like a weed eater with a blade instead of string. I need to clean out some brush and things like blackberry vines. I went to the area that had those items and everything was locked up behind steel bars. Could not see anything. I tried to find someone to help me and after searching awhile, went to customer service. They said they would call for help. I waited and waited and still no one came. I went back to CS and asked for help again. I heard them call over the pa and hoped to see a real person. After waiting again, I went to CS and told them they lost a nice sale.

I don't know what the item is called to look up. I guess I will go to my local store of a different brand. They are always helpful. I went to this other brand because I was in area.

Thanks for your time !!

Welcome to Post Wuhan Red Death, where Customer Service died because we are all here online, virtual avatars who like the same thing, finding parts lost in the Carpet Monster.  I have walked in (the ancient method of transporting yourself from car to store interior, then around it) in four businesses and waited patiently to be recognized as a person.  I will never go into REI, Cracker Barrel (before the bouncing ball was released) or a local glass shop again (forth was more than memory holds lol).  So of course if you are the only game in town, tell me....

[ranma]

16 hours ago, peteski said:

favorite food items discontinued over the years

Well just list a few so maybe others will remember them as well. Anywho Two more that I miss being produced. S'mores bars were great frozen!

[TonyK]

Sirius XM decided to drop the Beach Boys channel already. They do this every year where they bring it on for maybe a month and then it's gone. I was hoping it would be a permanent channel like the Beatles, Ozzy, Tom Petty, etc.

[bobthehobbyguy]

On 9/4/2025 at 6:04 AM, gbdolfans said:

Hi folks, I was in a large home improvement store yesterday looking for something like a weed eater with a blade instead of string. I need to clean out some brush and things like blackberry vines. I went to the area that had those items and everything was locked up behind steel bars. Could not see anything. I tried to find someone to help me and after searching awhile, went to customer service. They said they would call for help. I waited and waited and still no one came. I went back to CS and asked for help again. I heard them call over the pa and hoped to see a real person. After waiting again, I went to CS and told them they lost a nice sale.

I don't know what the item is called to look up. I guess I will go to my local store of a different brand. They are always helpful. I went to this other brand because I was in area.

Thanks for your time !!

Unfortunately instead of having enough staff the solution is to lock everything up. If there was enough staff they wouldn't need to lock everything up.  Walmart does this all the time. My sister has found that it's easier to do parking lot pickup rather than trying to get things opened. I suspect that getting customers to do parking lot pickup is the desired result which means that can further reduce the number of employees.

[Ace-Garageguy]

14 minutes ago, bobthehobbyguy said:

Unfortunately instead of having enough staff the solution is to lock everything up...

Yeah, I was in Home Despot yesterday and was surprised to see the amount of cages for goods that have been installed in the last few months.

Kindof a sorry statement about what our new-much-mo-better society really is like today.

There was a time that theft was the exception, rather than taken for granted.

EDIT: Googli's AI obviously doesn't have to pay for business losses due to theft, because it insists that crime is actually down everywhere, and we just shouldn't believe our lying eyes.

Edited September 5 by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[Ace-Garageguy]

What really irked me today is my own back.

I was up at 05:00, and it's taken me until past noon to get mobile enough to go in to work.

Bugger.

[89AKurt]

Sprained an ankle two days ago, took the day off yesterday, not bad but it's swollen.  Today I got what should be enough rocks, this is the first small load.  Forecast said we were going to get slammed with rain, got just a drizzle (that was nice to work in).  That's my Irk, best I can do.  [pickup has ADS 🤪]

[NYLIBUD]

Well talk about embarrassing,I fell out of my bed.My woman insisted we get a hi rise bed.🙄.Long story short,I rolled over and landed right on my hip..😤.But I gotta deal with it,I guess.We are not going to return it.God,I can’t $% walk.😖…Oh and it ain’t the first time either.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Lotta folks in the YT comment sections that you just know can't do squat, criticizing people like Foose. 

OK little fellas. Let's see what YOU can do, and then we'll weight your opinions accordingly.

 

[NYLIBUD]

I wake up today to find out that the birds that get their stuff for their nests pull it out of my gutters.Ok yes,I should’ve cleaned them in the spring,but no.Now my hoods are covered in bird sh#%,straw,grass,all over the car.🤨