"It's the stupidity of it," she said, "It's what I'd call 'the annoyance factor.' It's ridiculous.
UberConference, for those unaware, presents users with an attractive, visualized interface for calls which also helps address typical conference call annoyances like the inability to figure out who's making all that racket in the background and mute them.
With UberConference, the company introduced an alternative to the huge pain the ass that is audio conferencing today, by offering an attractive, visualized interface for calls that also addresses everyday conference call annoyances like background noise, not knowing who's present and who's doing the talking, and even the tedious "login" process involving the entry of long PINs.
In their mid-twenties, around the time that their parents were separating, the sisters created a show at the Annoyance Theatre called "The Real Live Brady Bunch": verbatim reënactments of old episodes, starring Andy Richter and Jane Lynch, who were then unknown local comedians.
As I see it, life's small annoyances are called petty for a reason.
In military parlance, this is termed harassment, one of the many small annoyances Clausewitz called the "friction of war".
Following a consultation launched last October, the government has been considering how to make early intervention easier, and is expected to announce that in future the ICO will be able to intervene when calls cause "nuisance, annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety".
"Nuisance calls can cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety to consumers," said Claudio Pollack, Ofcom's consumer group director.
As a child, Mo, as his brothers called him to his lifelong annoyance, roamed his grandparents' farm and learned the ways of the veldt from a Zulu farmhand.
