Time-Consuming Tedious Tasks

Commenters express frustration over various processes being excessively time-consuming, laborious, effortful, and often frustrating or not worth the hassle.

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time consuming consuming sounds like lot sounds like lot sounds like lot work effort spent hours chore

Sample Comments

dfens Jul 25, 2007 View on HN

That sounds like a lot of hassle.

theodric Jan 25, 2022 View on HN

It did? Bit of a chore from my perspective.

scottrblock Nov 29, 2012 View on HN

I've wasted a fair amount of time on it so far!

rantfoil Apr 27, 2010 View on HN

That sounds like a lot of work, to be honest.

meko Jun 14, 2018 View on HN

Thats sounds insanely time consuming.

run4yourlives Nov 30, 2007 View on HN

It's time consuming if you prefer it to be something more than gibberish.

howstheweather Jan 5, 2022 View on HN

Gee. So much effort, for something so mundane. I'd never manage.

sujayk_33 Feb 29, 2024 View on HN

That's a lot of effort, don't you think?

ionised Mar 14, 2016 View on HN

Sounds like it would be an exercise in frustration.

JohnMunsch Sep 5, 2013 View on HN

Yeah, that might be a bit of inconvenience.