I should probably clarify that the 8 hour ones are infrequent. Once in a month or two. But those are the days that are really annoying. The regular ones are like two hours a day or an hour at 3 different times in a day. All the other appliances are manageable but I have to shutdown my server every time.
There is a town in Austria which was called Fucking and now it's called Fugging. Seems like the residents couldn't take it anymore