And lying about why something is charged, although it's not silly. A takeaway website I worked for adds "service charge" which is literally just a delivery charge, but hidden, because you only see it during finalization. It doesn't apply to pick-up orders, only delivery. Many websites seem to had adopted it so they can lie about the free delivery.

In the USA, companies like Ticketmaster now have to show the full price upfront, including all taxes and fees. Airlines have had to do it for a little over 10 years, too. I really hope this is enforced for more industries in the future.

If I'm at a physical store, they know the tax rate, so the listed prices should include taxes! Same with a restaurant, more and more of which are hiding nonsense fees.

And the price per kilo written so small I need my glasses to decipher it.

That's not even silly. That's some real shit.

Also on stoves. "Oh, you wanna turn off a burner? Sorry, your fingers are too wet. Also, I hope you remembered to read the 300 page manual because we've never even heard of intuitive controls"

Also, every car should use standardized bays for things like the stereo. Like, seriously, why can't I upgrade my car stereo anymore?

I have a Citroen Berlingo and everything except the Android Auto stuff is operated by buttons. What cars don't use buttons? And for what features?

Well apparently some company had to try this on the vehicles 🤣

There is so much unnecessary advertising in my country. Billboards, commercials on a screen at fuel stations, placards on park benches. None of it has any tangible benefit to regular people. None.

Huh it would be nice to walk around the city with less advertisements

Times New Roman is my one disagreement here. That font is not my favorite.

Broaden this to any ads on the streets. Billboards are the most egregious, but I'd actually kill for a society where I can get from my home to a grocery with nothing trying to sell me something.

I'm ambivalent on this one. If the ad on a building serves to keep the charges from tenants lower then I don't mind (given the ad is somewhat tasteful). Ads for the sake of ads? Yea, fuck that.

I disagree with the requirement for plain labels. Trademarks exist for consumer protection as well as business protection; I want Gatorade to hold a trademark on clear bottles with lightning bolts on the front and orange caps, because I don't want to be fooled into buying Negligent Uncle Greg's Geterade. If anything, I would force companies to use fewer of them; no hosing Amazon with 900,000 differently branded permutations of the same product.

I wouldn't call it a silly issue myself. I'd ban all plastic packaging unless proven to have no alternative. I'm also infiuriated with countries for making easily recyclable materials actively hard to recycle: speaking of glass. They make it so you have to take it to a recycling point, which can be sparse depending on your idea. Glass and metals are amazing for recycling. But no, make everything plastic and actively push people away from purchasing glass by making them have to go out of their way to recycle it. Plastic bottles frequently aren't even better. I had multiple plastic sauce bottles break akin to glass and leak out.

Here in Finland we have a really extensive and efficient plastic bottle and aluminum can recycling system. Every bottle and can has a deposit (0.40 € for large bottles, 0.20 € for small bottles, 0.15 € for cans) and you can cash them by returning them at any store. Just toss them in a machine.

There's even some hypermarkets where you can just pour in a giant bag full of bottles or cans and the machine sorts and prices the things automatically.

It's super annoying we still can't really do the same for rest of the single use plastic, but at least trash sorting and recycling what can be recycled is a thing everywhere. We have a lot of projects that aim to reduce those. Probably the coolest recent thing was that someone came up with all-carton coffee cups. (I hope they catch on so we can get rid of the cups that have the Sad Turtle Warning. I don't want turtles to be sad, they're awesome.)

Single use plastic in general. I skipped bagging my veggies at the grocer today because it felt wasteful.

I heard a great talk with Sian Sutherland on plastic reduction recently, specifically around brand agnostic standardized metal bottles: https://youtu.be/jTs6KejhSg4?feature=shared

Everything should be glass or aluminum. Preferably aluminum since you don't really have to worry about mixtures and cleaning it, you just melt it down and reshape it. With glass, you have to separate out the different types, and it still breaks down each recycle, I believe, since they mix silica with other compounds to make different kinds of glass.

I honestly don't understand stand why plastic beverage bottles are still a thing. Cans work perfectly. And if you insist on bottles, they can make aluminum cans too.

While we're on the subject of plastic packaging:

I want the recent Dutch law on single use plastics to be significantly rewritten.

So they passed a law, requiring sellers to charge people for single use plastic containers. Sounds cool, right? Well, the law has some problems:

• the seller is allowed to set the surcharge to be as high as they want it to be.
• the seller may keep the money from the surcharge
• the seller is not required to offer an alternative
• the seller can refuse to honour people's request for them using their own packaging

So effectively, they'll set the surcharges to be as low as they can, and don't bother allowing anyone to use alternatives. If you go to a snack bar, ask for a serving of fries, and offer your own bowl to put them in, the seller can just tell you "NOPE"

So I think the law should be retooled to cover these issues. The prices should be set from above, the money should go to the state, and the seller must honour customers' requests for using their own packaging alternatives.

Some countries (at least Australia, USA, and many European countries) have deposits on bottles and cans where you pay a deposit of somewhere between 5 and 40 cents (depending on country) when you buy the drink, and get the deposit back when you return it to a store or recycling center for recycling. Reusing instead of recycling would be the next logical step there.

There are actually some companies in the USA that reuse bottles, Straus Family Creamery being one of the more well-known ones at least in my area. They charge a $3 deposit per milk bottle. When you return the bottle to the store, you get your $3 back and the store returns it to Straus. They put the returned bottles in crates and the delivery drivers pick up the old bottles when they drop off the new ones.

I agree. Pay the people a livable wage and price the product accordingly, with taxes included.

But I do want to still know how much of the cost is tax. Basically an all in cost, but as transparent as possible

The last part is made more complicated by having different tax rates on different items in different places at different times.

You see a national ad for Walmart with a widget on sale. Depending on what city and state you buy it, the price will change because the tax rates are different between and even within jurisdictions.

Maybe the Walmart you go to has a development agreement where they pay higher local tax as a way to cover the infrastructure project the City has to complete to support the building. Or maybe it's the opposite and Walmart built a bunch of streets an utilities they dedicated to the City and now they don't pay sales tax to the local jurisdiction.

Or maybe on September 1st sales tax rates changed in the middle of an ad campaign. Or maybe there's an additional tax exemption due to a Development Agreement.

Or maybe that kayak is no longer taxed at the time sale because you bought a trolling motor at the same time and now it's classified as a motor boat and the customer pays state sales tax when they register it with the state?

It's really, really difficult to predict taxes when you've for so many wacky jurisdictional issues that affect the tax rate.

It also leads to worse service. US dining is fuckin tedious. Every 5 minutes someone harasses you, doing the fake smile thing, etc

In my country you just shout if you need something, or there's just a bing-bong button on the table. they leave you alone unless you ask, and you pay only what's on the bill

It's a fair point that it can be racist and sexist. I'm sure the attractive get paid more. After all, strippers are the ultimate in tipped workers. They have to pay for the opportunity to work for tips.

We do need to get over this "poor tipped workers", though.

There's a reason why no tipping restaurants end up failing and returning to tips.

It's because you make much more in tips than you'd make otherwise.

It's like no one has ever worked for tips and honestly calculated what they made.

I worked for tips in high school. I didn't make that much money again until people started calling me doctor.

I’m on board with that as soon as we ban scented laundry detergent, dryer sheets and perfume.

Can't wait until they pass a law banning "smoking within 10m of another person outdoors" so we can play "chase the smoker!" game and they have to run away from us or face a fine.

Make it illegal in all public spaces. Do that shit at home.

I'd shift that slightly.

Bottled water can be useful in emergencies and disaster situations, but they should be treated like other emergency items/rations. People should use reusable containers as much as possible, and the companies should NOT get to suck up all the water they want for free.

Even in area where it's slightly unsafe, you can get a water filter that installs onto your tap, or even a whole house water filter.

OP said inconvenience, not acts of terrorism.

So you're neither singing nor hearing those sleigh bells ringing?

I'm not advocating for capital punishment, I'm just saying that if we lynch a couple of daytime pop radio hosts for siren-like noises then it will probably go away pretty quickly.

The other day I had a song come on Spotify in which a part of the beat sounded like the cars warning beep. But it was not the right speed to be door or seat belt alarm, so I figured it had to be some else like tire pressure or engine warning... Mother fucker was part of a song and kept me looking for warning lamps blinking for a good minute or so.

I want to throw in doorbells with this (but only as a misdemeanor)

I use Pluto.tv for background noise at night. Amazon is now running some 'Prime Deal Days' ads and one of them has a very prominent doorbell sound that wakes my ass up everytime.

That crime should be punishable by caning.

Is it that bad? I mean, whats wrong with loose calm music?

I feel like Halloween sections of stores are smaller this year to make room for Christmas stuff

I was in Walmart yesterday and they had kids holiday clothes on the racks just down the aisle from the Halloween costumes. WTF?!

A popular hardware store put up Halloween lawn decorations in Sept and just swapped them for Christmas lawn decorations this past weekend.

All of them make noise. Can I just get soil in peace?

Oh yea, I was at the store today to replenish refrigerator and there were December stuff being sold already. Bit odd. ^ ^'

Dude, the local Costco had Xmas stuff up ON MOTHERFUCKING LABOR DAY WEEKEND.

I also thought infringing on Halloween's sovereign retail space was going to far, but this is literal insanity.

Winter is coming

Or just xmas in general. Perfect shitstorm of bullshit religion and runaway, dangerous capitalism.

Up the ante:

Create a legal mechanism that legalizes vandalism on illegally parked vehicles.

So if you wanna park illegally, go for it. The odds of a cop seeing you and stopping to cite you may well be in your favor.

But now anyone you inconvenience can, legally, key the shit out of your car, bust out your windows, and knock off your side mirrors.

Also parking too close to a street corner. Technically illegal but very rarely enforced. It is a real safety hazard since, instead of being able to stop at the stop line and see perpendicular traffic, and driver has to enter the intersection to see (and then have their line of sight blocked by a parked vehicle in the perpendicular direction).

It also makes large vehicles like large trucks and busses take turns very wide.

The keyfob doesn't actually know if the car received the signal or not, which is why the car has to react in some way.

Or the stupidly sensitive car alarms that react to the slightest movement (ahem BWM and Audi and Mercedes)

Everytime I take a ferry those vehicles are blaring their alarms for the entire trip and they need to announce on the P.A for the owner to come back and turn the alarm off.

Life pro tip, if you leave your car on the ferry, don't turn your alarm on!

This can be turned off on every car I have ever interacted with by holding specific buttons on the key fob

It doesn't trigger the horn on UK cars, which I definitely appreciate. Although it was amusing to watch my partner jump every time I locked our hire car in the USA, the noise pollution is unnecessary.

In Firefox, switch to reader mode. THEN refresh the page. You get all the text, but the JavaScript to yank it away doesn't run.

Try nail clippers for it

I LOVE my Flush Cutters. I got them for vape stuff (making coils and cutting cotton) and now I use them for everything. I have four of them. I don’t know why.

Apparently Its called 'type C'

This

probably is illegal in well developed countries

That's indeed the case here! I always found the wording of it cute:

New York City Administrative Code, Title 10: Public Safety, § 10-108 Regulation of sound devices or apparatus

It is hereby declared that the use or operation of any radio device or apparatus or any device or apparatus for the amplification of sounds from any radio, phonograph or other sound-making or sound-producing device, or any device or apparatus for the reproduction or amplification of the human voice or other sounds, in front of or outside of any building, place or premises, or in or through any window, doorway or opening of such building, place or premises, ... is detrimental to the health, welfare and safety of the inhabitants of the city. ... It shall be unlawful for any person to use or operate any sound device or apparatus in, on, near or adjacent to any public street, park or place, for commercial and business advertising purpose.

Doesn't mean it doesn't happen ALL THE TIME in some parts of town.

Potato chips are the worst for this

Cart narcs assemble!

In Hungary you put a coin the cart that you get back when you take it back

Back when I was a teen my first job was at a grocery store. One of the best parts of that job was getting away from all the chaos and collecting carts. Just my 2 cents.

I had that with some medication. It was a pain killer and muscle relaxant that was in a bottle with a drip opening. The last ml refused to stop out so I took the bottle and sucked the rest out. Well that was more than the usual dose of that medication. I was lying in my bed barely able to move. But I never felt so relaxed

I have a lot of medications like this: huge boxes containing one pill bottle and 60% air. Why??? Also, injection meds that have "display boxes" like they are high end Samsung electronics.

Just preemptively nationalize all corporations — would be much faster and would get the same result

Why do people throw trash on the ground if a trash can is out of reach?

Where would people take trash then? Home with them? Most people would just drop it on the beach.

I feel the exact opposite of you: more trash cans in public spaces.

Can you please clarify what you mean? I just want a better understanding of what driving conditions we're talking about. Are these parking lots where it's like a strip mall with one row of parking spots directly in front of the building and you back directly into a road, or are we talking about people gunning it going forward without looking?

While I agree with your point, OP specified “silly inconvenient stuff”. I think behavior that can result in serious injury or death is a little bit outside the scope of the question.

You encountered karen recently?

Just to add, you should never have less than 1 full car length per 10mph you're traveling between you and the car in front of you. Generally it should be like, double that.

Yes, but also if you are in the left lane on a highway it's also your responsibility to get out of said lane if someone is becoming closer than this behind you.

I'd much rather ban home delivery for most parcel (stuff like couches and fridges excluded) and have them put in one of those package vaults.

The postman drives all the packages to the vault, chucks them in, you pick them up when you've got time (they work 24/7), everyone wins.

Postmen tend to be extremely overworked and underpaid. Many are paid per parcel delived and your idea would probably kill the job of delivery all together. Unless you plan to increase the postmen workforce by 700% and also reintroduce slavery I see no way why anyone would do that.

Apple forced to continue selling the iPhone 2G in 2147 despite not even displaying the correct date and time due to overflow

Summer

Money implies poverty.

Done right a stop sign tells you that the yield sign was not enough and that you have to be careful.

I'm fine with someone having a car.

My problem is with everyone needing a car, even to run errands round the corner.

The problem is not cars. The problem is car dependency.

That said, any "car" where you cannot see a six-year-old right in front of the vehicle should require a license for an eighteen wheeler.

Cringey Boomer-esque joke about murdering people simply cause inconvenience.

That sounds more like an infrastructure problem to me, your anger might be a bit misdirected. If reasonable transport isn't available you should be angry at your local government instead, if it is available and you choose not to use it then it's a problem of your own making and you should be angry at yourself. You really can't blame someone for using the infrastructure available to move heavy equipment since it's almost certainly not their fault that you're stuck using the same road.

Speed limits in school zones because kids think fast cars are cool.

You may be talking about the same thing I am, just using terminology more common in other parts of the world. By "motorways" are you only talking about highways/interstates? I can absolutely agree with THAT, but if by motorways you mean any roads, that might actually be a nightmare for side roads, residential, etc.

Oatmeal chocolate chip is the WORST.

A good chocolate chip cookie is AMAZING but not in oatmeal.

Only raisins/dried fruit belong in oatmeal. Oatmeal is a chewy cookie and raisins are a chewie addition they go together PERFECTLY.

I don't trust people who don't like oatmeal raisin cookies. And they aren't even really hard to tell from chocolate chip, the texture is completely and visibly different!

"oatmeal no raisin?"

"I'm sorry to have wasted your time"

If you know you're about to bite into an oatmeal raisin cookie, it's fine. The bigger problem is the fact that they look like chocolate chip cookies and they suck because of disappointment that it ain't chocolate chip.

Raisin anything tbh. I sometimes had them put into my salad. I don't hate myself, I just enjoy healthy stuff sometimes. No need to bully me via raisins. :c

Do buses in your area not have the bike rack on the front?

Counterpoint: sometimes your start and destination are too far apart for cycling.

Counter-counterpoint, in such cases it'd make sense to arrange for a second bike or a bike share near your destination.

As a Dutchman i have to say you are insane and need to be admitted to a psych ward/s

Bicycles are not only healthier and more renewable but also safer.

You right. That's a pretty spicy opinion. How's about we ban cars inside city limits? Self-powered vehicles and mass transit only.

Edit: can->ban, though it does kinda still work.

I actually believe personal use cars should be banned completely (so not affecting ambulances, taxis, public transport and so on). I don't think it's a silly inconvinient topic though. I spend 20 minutes commuting to work by bike, by a car or a bus it can be even over an hour, due to how inefficient that type of transit is (not to mention it's ecological and health issues).

I gather that you haven't ever watched NotJustBikes on YouTube or City Beautiful or "Oh the Urbanity" or "Life Where I'm from" or "Nimesh in Los Angeles" or any of the hundreds of other channels? Please pick one (or many) and watch a few videos. There's so much to learn that you are missing out.

Guys, poster above is just answering the question as posed! They are wrong of course, but the downvote button is for non-constructive contributions, not for disagreement 😊!