h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Aside from which, it would be boring if we were all slime. But then, would we care that it was boring if slime was our natural state? Does slime experience boredom?

If it ever does, it can always run for president.

My Petty Hates for today so far:

1. Amazon has changed the way it does recommendations. In the past​ you had the options to say that you weren't interested in a recommendation, or you already owned it. This would remove the item from the list. Amazon has taken this facility away, so I'm stuck with a long list of products and no way to reduce it to things I'm actually interested in.

2. Yesterday I tried to contact EE customer services from a landline. You navigate to the appropriate person via a series of menus. I ended up going round and round the menus without ever speaking to an actual person. In the end I gave up, which is probably what they want.

Now I'm totally confused. I was already signed in to Amazon when I did my previous post. After posting I went to "Improve your recommendations", which asked me to sign in. I was already signed in! After signing in again, I had the old style recommendations page!?!
If I'm already signed in to make purchases, surely I'm signed in for all other purposes. This is going from Petty Hate to grumpfest.

Sounds like a problem with their federated identity management.

PH; phone apps that reset or change your preferences whenever they update, especially when they re-tick the notifications options. Fact; I don't *ever* want social media to notify me about anything. I check the blasted things often enough to be able to see who has posted what, when I want. It's really irritating and insulting to their users when they do that. You should only ever need to set your app preferences once for the life of the device it is used on.

Apart from anything else, my phone uses the same notification sound for everything so I keep thinking I've got a text message, when in fact a friend of a friend of a friend has just posted an to a comment Yeah, i really needed to be notified about that.

I really wish I could set facebook to only show me things my friends have actually commented on, rather than everything they liked. I also wish it had a "take me to the posts that have been added since I last logged on" button, so I don't have to trawl through old stuff that I've already seen but somebody else has liked.

My real petty hate in that respect is that I'm too nosey to be able to just not look in the first place

Deb

The list of petty hates regarding Facadebook is quite lengthy.

A constant one for me is the inability to hide an individual post without being prompted to report it, block the poster or source, etc.

Maybe, the post is just a bit racy for my work computer and I just want to hide it. Maybe, it's politics and I just don't want to see it. Maybe it's sad...

Meeting someone famous, only for no-one you know to have ever heard of them.
Last week I met Alex Winters, former CBeebies presenter.

<BB<

Me neither.

But I have heard of you, if that helps?

Not to be confused with Alex Winter, AKA Bill S. Preston, esquire, noted member of Wyld Stallyns from San Dimas, California.

EXCELLENT!

OK here comes the ultimate first world problem: Why do hotels provide notices to hang on the door with "do not disturb" on the one side and "please make up room" on the other? I have seen these turned round and even noticed on returning to our room that ours has been turned round.

That's due to a freak of linguistics. 'Do not disturb' actually means 'Please make up room' in Tagalog.

I've wondered about those signs, as they usually come in anyway, so why have both signs? I suspect the turning round is someone playing a prank. My only other thought is that you especially want the room cleaned because you've made a messs...

Baron Grim - EXCELLENT indeed

FB notifications are my petty hate, too - sometimes I get notified about a very petty thing, and then other times I've received something quite important and didn't get a notification until after I found it randomly myself...

I thought the Please Make Up Room one might be to indicate to the cleaners that you're out early, so your room can be done first, but they do seem to work more methodically than that...

The last hotel I stayed in had tags with Do Not Disturb on one side, and Guests Sleeping on the other side Weirdly someone found a random tag and put it on my door after I had gone out, so the room wasn't made up and I had to disturb the receptionist that night to get some help. The staff were very good about it, and properly thorough even though all I wanted was help making the bed.

I hate clocks!!!!

AAAND... one of they neighbors is firing off more fireworks... on the 8th of July.

Here in the UK we have the same problem with 5th of November (Guy Fawkes Day). Some people celebrate the weekend before, some the weekend after, some on the day itself. Whichever they do, there's noise and inconvenience for the people nearby, and a lot of upset and disturbed pets.

Not a petty hate for me since I have no pets and love fireworks, but there's also Xmas, New Year, birthdays, weddings and other festivals religious and non-religious when fireworks are set off.

There are now permanent firework shops.

PP.