u/KiwiPieEater

Voice messages are annoying even when the sender does a good job at structuring and pre planning what they will say, but when the sender freestyles their messages, they become an annoying chore to get through.

I was trying to plan a meet-up with a friend of mine recently, and they managed to turn a simple question into a big headache.

All I asked them was, "Hey, do you want to catch up on Saturday or sunday for a few beers?" It's a simple question with a simple answer.

They managed to confuse everything with their 5 minute long voice message they sent back. Over the course of the five minutes, they managed to:

Ramble for the first part of the message and wasted 2 minutes not saying anything

They then apologised for rambling and wasting my time (even though at this point they could have deleted the msg and started again without the ramble)

Without acknowledging my offer to grab a few beers, they instead just said that they were actually interested in doing another thing that wasn't originally even an option

They then talked to themselves for a while, trying to decide who else should be invited before circling back to grabbing some beers

Changed the date of the meet-up from the weekend to a weekday

Bounced between several restaurants and bars that they wanted to try out

Then, he finished the voice message by saying, "we should do that," as if I was supposed to be able to follow their incoherent string of thoughts that at no point was a single idea.

I had to then message back asking, "What actually was his plan?" Because he just said dozens of things in random order that wasn't clear at all.

He then got annoyed that I hadn't listened to his voice message properly and that all the information was laid out.

Please people, if you are sending voice messages just make them clear, concise, and short!

Im sick of companies not reminding you of password requirements until after you have been locked out of your account. Why isn't it the industry standard that after you get your password wrong once you are given a prompt that reminds you of what their password criteria are?

Something simple like "just a reminder that your password must include X, Y, and Z" to jog your memory. Or include a hint like sites used to do back in the day.

For example, depending on what site you are trying to log into, your password could have to adhere to any of the following criteria:

A 4 digit pin

A 6 digit pin

8 characters

8 characters with at least 1 upper-case character

8 characters with at least 1 upper-case character and a special symbol

8 characters with at least 1 upper-case character, 1 lower case character, and a special symbol

8 characters with at least 1 upper-case character, 1 lower case character, a number, and a special character

16 characters!

A 4 character password using 1 letter followed by a number followed by a letter, then another number (yes, this is the real requirement to log into my toll account to pay for fees)

I don't understand why sites feel like they can't remind you of their potentially unique password requirements until after you lock yourself out. How is it any less secure to remind you after you have failed to log in instead of after the first failed attempt?

I've had 2 new roommates move into my flat recently. They are grown ass adults, and both of them hold down full-time jobs. As people, I get along with them fine, and they pay their rent on time, but im constantly having issues with them being terrible at doing what I consider "simple tasks"

They can't do simple things like:

Empty the inside trash bins when they are full. They just let the trash overflow and then pile up stuff besides it

They pile up recycling on the counter because they don't want to walk the 20 feet outside to put it in the recycling bin

Put the trash out on rubbish day unless specifically asked to do so. They just ignore that chore and are happy to have flies and maggots around the house

Buy new dish or hand soap when we run out. They are happy to wash their dishes and hands with only water

Change out tea towels or foot towels when they are gross and soaking wet.

Buy new toilet paper after we run out. I don't even know how this one works, I guess they only shit at work?

For a time, I handled a lot of these chores, but after confronting my roommates, they genuinely don't seem to mind living like this. They acknowledge they should be doing more, but nothing really changes. I'm not even calling them assholes, it's comes off like the responsibilities of living in a flat don't cross their minds

What makes some people so useless? I refuse to believe it's a lack of training from their parents. It feels more like some people's standards are just incredibly low.

Im getting over seeing posts from 5 days ago with 2 upvotes and zero comments appear on my homefeed.

Is there a way to limit the age of posts shown on that feed to 24 hours or less?

Why is almost every poster on social media so lazy and uncreative?

Why, when we have millions of songs or soundtracks to choose from, do so many people choose the laziest or most overused option to pair with their video? You know what I'm talking about, people that:

Use the "oh no" song on any video where something goes wrong

Use the Titanic theme on any video set on a boat or on the ocean

Use that "generic french restaurant" music when they post a recipe

People, do you understand that you can actually pick a song to go with your video that hasn't already been used 50,000 times right?

I honestly don't understand why roommates don't empty full trash bins or take out the trash on rubbish day?

I get it. It's a chore, and nobody likes touching potentially gross or dirty things, but it has to be done, and if it isn't done, you get flies and stink around your house.

I have 4 trash bins in the flat im staying in right now, one in the kitchen, bathroom, toilet, plus the larger trash bin the city gives your house. It is a struggle to get my roommates to empty any of them or put the main trash bin on the curb for collection once a week.

Trash will literally be overflowing from some of the bins, and rather than emptying them, my roommates will just pile up their rubbish next to the bin as if it's waiting their to be collected by someone else.

Even worse is that if I don't do it myself, the trash never gets put out on collection day. We've had conversations about it as a flat, but nothing has changed.

One time I even stopped helping with the trash for a few weeks to see if I could let the house get so disgusting that it would force my roommates to take action, but they didn't seem to mind the maggots and stench.

TLDR: I paid to help cover the costs of 4 roommate's birthdays, but when it was my turn to have things paid for me, "it was too expensive to do"

I moved into a flat with a group of 4 other friends/mutual friends. We all know each other and get along fine.

Earlier this year, someone said it would be cool if we all contributed money towards each other's birthdays to celebrate. The basic idea is that the birthday person would get a small gift and the flat would go out for dinner somewhere and everyone would pay for the birthday boy or girl's meal.

Everyone was OK with the idea, but i was initially hesitant because I was worried people would back out of the agreement before everyone had celebrated their birthdays. I pointed out that if we did this for 1 person in the flat, we'd have to do it for everyone so that it's fair. No one objected, and everyone agreed we'd follow through.

Fast forward to now. The 4 other roommates have all enjoyed their birthdays, gifts, and meals being paid for by others, with my birthday coming up next. Now everyone is saying that it's getting too expensive to cover the costs of the birthday person and they aren't going to contribute anymore.

Im not upset that my birthday isn't really being celebrated now (im an adult, i'll manage). I'm annoyed that the point I raised about the flat needing to fully commit to celebrating everyone's birthday to make it financially fair wasn't listened to and is now being ignored.

So now I've contributed to 4 other people's birthday gifts and dinners, but I'm getting nothing in return. Fuck me right?

If your company is stupid enough to advertise on reddit, then users should be able to show their approval or disapproval through voting or in the comment section.

If your company disables either or both of these options, it tells me that you are hostile towards your intended audience and don't trust that users on this site will show approval towards your product/service.

If you don't trust users on here (personally, I don't), then don't bother advertising on this site.