Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

BelgianBeerGeek

homers double wrote:

Cramp.

Especially when it wakes you up.

Matthewfalle

Stupid Cervelo aero seat post and stupid design that makes levelling the saddle a right bugger.

Garry H

this



and people who say "I don't like being told what to do".

team47b

This



And people who say don't tell me what to do

Garry H

team47b wrote:

This



And people who say don't tell me what to do

E Bike version?

Just do what you want.

team47b

1950's original Ducati Cucciolo four stroke engine, the one that started the Ducati motorbike empire, reduced to being done up like a tarts handbag :roll:

shortfall

Formula 1. The most boring show on earth. The fastest car wins, and what overtaking there is is either in pit stops or manufactured by plastic racing rules. The cars have too many electronic aids that detract from driver skill and strategy and decision making is done by people in the pits. It's almost got to the stage where the team bosses might as well be taking part in a giant remote control car race.

secretsam

burnthesheep wrote:

Trek Crockett

A what?!?!?!

burnthesheep wrote:

I won't even get into the 30 ft. long string of dog leashes across paths

I'll do that one, descending at 30mph+, some silly cow walking down one side of the road with dog-on-a-string on the other..."Arggghmoveyourfuckingdogyousillycowforfuck'ssake" (other phrases are available)

secretsam

Shortfall wrote:

Formula 1. The most boring show on earth. The fastest car wins, and what overtaking there is is either in pit stops or manufactured by plastic racing rules. The cars have too many electronic aids that detract from driver skill and strategy and decision making is done by people in the pits. It's almost got to the stage where the team bosses might as well be taking part in a giant remote control car race.

+1 million but even worse: Formula 1...on the radio. It's dull as shoot as a visual sport, on the radio...just a load of people yelling over some noise. "Oh! Hamilton is changing his tyres!!!!". Changing tyres is not a cause for excitement

Tashman

I'm an F1 fan but admit that the AUS GP was fairly tedious. I know there is much to admire in the technology and development but the spectacle comes in wheel to wheel racing. If the disturbed air from the aero of the car in front negates the car following so much that it can't challenge even if it has a superior engine/chassis package (Hamilton & Verstappen) then this year will be very processional zzzz

Alain Quay

The anti-social cyclist

Philosophy: My canny guile will more than compensate for my complete lack of fitness. Runs red lights, weaves between pedestrians at zebra crossings, but still gets overtaken by other cyclists.

pinno

Alain Quay wrote:

Passing red light running cyclists

I'm confused.

bompington

Pinno wrote:

Alain Quay wrote:

Passing red light running cyclists

I'm confused.

I think he meant cycling past red running lighters

bompington

or maybe cycling past lighter red runners

forehead

Songs that fade out. It's lazy songwriting.

team47b

Forehead wrote:

Songs that fade out. It's lazy songwriting.

Yeah I too hate it when

izza

Tashman wrote:

I'm an F1 fan but admit that the AUS GP was fairly tedious. I know there is much to admire in the technology and development but the spectacle comes in wheel to wheel racing. If the disturbed air from the aero of the car in front negates the car following so much that it can't challenge even if it has a superior engine/chassis package (Hamilton & Verstappen) then this year will be very processional zzzz

Once its been explained to you by an ex-F1 driver that it's Sports entertainment (like WWE) rather than sport, you also realise its even more tedious.

izza

When I update the software on an iphone all my settings remain. Why, for the love of a god can't Garmin do the same when they ask you to update the firmware on an Edge unit.

FatTed

izza wrote:

When I update the software on an iphone all my settings remain. Why, for the love of a god can't Garmin do the same when they ask you to update the firmware on an Edge unit.

I think it is to make you want to buy a Wahoo Elemnt

cowsham

Shortfall wrote:

Formula 1. The most boring show on earth. The fastest car wins, and what overtaking there is is either in pit stops or manufactured by plastic racing rules. The cars have too many electronic aids that detract from driver skill and strategy and decision making is done by people in the pits. It's almost got to the stage where the team bosses might as well be taking part in a giant remote control car race.

I agree it's very boring but it's supposed to be the blue ribbon of motor car racing and should be the most advanced, fastest, and where all the new technology is invented and tested -- that's why I stopped watching it in 1992 after they banned cvt ( instantly took 2 seconds off a lap no stupid gearbox ) ground effect ( what killed senna -- he was used to the higher corner speeds ground effect offered ) etc etc this is 2017 not 1917 . If they have to wear G suits cos the cars are so fast -- so be it ! Hell some deluded amateur cyclist wear Lycra in the belief it makes them go faster.

shortfall

Nick Clegg

fat daddy

Cowsham wrote:

Hell some deluded amateur cyclist wear Lycra in the belief it makes them go faster.

It makes me go faster .... aint no way I am stopping at a café dressed like a woman in tights .. power on past, head down, quicker quicker

tangled_metal

Farage in sex romp with tv actress I've never seen. I'm away on a weekend break and the site shop stocked newspapers that though it worthy of front page! Farage certainly counts as trivial thing now brexit is happening. A vile trivial thing that's so desperate to get into the news

Should this be in the rant thread? It did put me off the breakfast for which the purchase of eggs was for

haydenm

I said it last year and I'd say it again now, coach tours. Specifically Lochs and Glens tours but the rest are just as annoying. They stop in the town where I live, stagger round then head on up to the highlands and drive about very very slowly and never stop to let people overtake just so people like my nan can stand at the same view point they did every year previously.

dinyull

izza wrote:

Tashman wrote:

I'm an F1 fan but admit that the AUS GP was fairly tedious. I know there is much to admire in the technology and development but the spectacle comes in wheel to wheel racing. If the disturbed air from the aero of the car in front negates the car following so much that it can't challenge even if it has a superior engine/chassis package (Hamilton & Verstappen) then this year will be very processional zzzz

Once its been explained to you by an ex-F1 driver that it's Sports entertainment (like WWE) rather than sport, you also realise its even more tedious.

Could he explain why? Or can you?

WWE is scripted, F1 isn't. Scripted is what is meant by "Sports Entertainment".

I get why people don't like it, many fans aren't particularly happy with it at the minute but how on earth is it like WWE in any way, shape or form?

awavey

Cowsham wrote:

Shortfall wrote:

Formula 1. The most boring show on earth. The fastest car wins, and what overtaking there is is either in pit stops or manufactured by plastic racing rules. The cars have too many electronic aids that detract from driver skill and strategy and decision making is done by people in the pits. It's almost got to the stage where the team bosses might as well be taking part in a giant remote control car race.

I agree it's very boring but it's supposed to be the blue ribbon of motor car racing and should be the most advanced, fastest, and where all the new technology is invented and tested -- that's why I stopped watching it in 1992 after they banned cvt ( instantly took 2 seconds off a lap no stupid gearbox ) ground effect ( what killed senna -- he was used to the higher corner speeds ground effect offered ) etc etc this is 2017 not 1917 . If they have to wear G suits cos the cars are so fast -- so be it ! Hell some deluded amateur cyclist wear Lycra in the belief it makes them go faster.

Huh? ground effect was banned in F1 circa 1983, whilst Senna was still racing in F3 and CVT didnt even work in an F1 car till 93, and it was never raced.

and g suits would be a stupid idea imo, if the driver blacks out which is a serious risk where cornering speed creates excessive g force, it happens even in trained fighter pilots, youve got an uncontrolled car travelling at very high speed thats going to leave the track or crash into something or someone very hard, all the new technology is invented and tested in world endurance racing,F1 just needs to stop being an aerodynamicists formula, stop wasting millions on thousand element front wings that no-one can barely tell have changed from race to race & get back to favouring mechanical grip. You want races where cars can overtake

pinno

The things that would make F1 more interesting would ironically be the antithesis of the sport:
Gearboxes and clutches
Slick tyres
1 hour qualifying period.
Unlimited tyres.

I stopped watching it when they stopped the 1 hour qualifying. It was often as good as the race.

Giraffoto

Formula 1's biggest problem appears to be that it's trying to be two things - that is, an interesting sporting spectacle and a showcase of the very latest and best technology - which are mutually exclusive in its current format. So the options could be:

Abandon the current format, and make it more like a time trial so they're not racing each other, or

Abandon interesting, and make it all about how fast a parade of cars can do a series of laps, or

Abandon the very latest and best technology, and introduce some rules like "no aerodynamic devices in front of the front axle line or behind the rear axle line" or insist that it's relevant to road cars

Funnily enough, when I took an interest I didn't watch the races but looked in magazines like Autosport to see what the latest technological tweaks were, so I'd probably favour the first two.

thistle_

It's time trial season and there's one that I wanted to do tomorrow night.
However I'm full of cold due to my considerate diseased colleagues coming in to work and coughing/sneezing over everyone.

Matthewfalle

When internet dealers have things showing on their page so but when you click on them they are out of stock.

Why have them showing?