Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

rick_chasey

People will spend 20-30 minutes queuing for slightly cheaper petrol but will also refuse to drive at 60mph rather than 70+.

Stupid.

First.Aspect

rick_chasey said:

People will spend 20-30 minutes queuing for slightly cheaper petrol but will also refuse to drive at 60mph rather than 70+.

Stupid.

Have a car with 320 bhp, but it has an eco mode. Kind of think that ship sailed when the engine was put in it.

pinno

surrey_commuter said:

pinno said:

rjsterry said:

FFS, it's rosbif, not Rost Biff.

I'm dixlexic, poorly educated and cannot spell.

Some pedantry RJS? because I do not see the irony even with the mistake.

the irony is that you compained about "narrow mindedness" and then wrote a French expression in franglais

'compained'.

Errare humanum est.

pinno

Amazing how quickly one gets drawn into pedantry.

#pedantrysucks

You cannot refer most of the SE as 'sticks' (if any). It is classed as 'megalopolis'. Surrey: population - 1.89m. Distance to London - 17.9 miles.
You cannot call Epsom 'borderline sticks'.
If you do, then that displays an insular and narrow point of view.

Succinct enough?

The less succinct bit (England and Wales):

• The mean distance between a person’s home and the A&E department that they attended was 7.2 kilometres (km) (4.4 miles), with a median of 4.2 km (2.6
miles), based on analysis of 13 million attendances in 2011/12. Eighty-four percent of these attendances were by people living within 12 km (7.5 miles) of a major A&E department.
• The mean distance from hospital to home for an emergency admission was 8.7 km (5.4 miles), with a median of 5.5 km (3.4 miles), based on five million emergency admissions in 2011/12. Seventy per cent of emergency admissions occurred within 10 km of a person’s home, and very few people (3 per cent) were admitted to a hospital over 30 km (18.6 miles) away from their home.

Don't make me laugh:

masjer

I'm not sure if I class myself as living in the sticks, more farmland, but trivially annoying is my car has just had a safety recall. The steering airbag emblem apparently over time goes brittle. To get this 5 gram piece of plastic replaced is a 130 mile round trip! I've ignored it so far.

surrey_commuter

pinno said:

Amazing how quickly one gets drawn into pedantry.

#pedantrysucks

You cannot refer most of the SE as 'sticks' (if any). It is classed as 'megalopolis'. Surrey: population - 1.89m. Distance to London - 17.9 miles.
You cannot call Epsom 'borderline sticks'.
If you do, then that displays an insular and narrow point of view.

Succinct enough?

The less succinct bit (England and Wales):

• The mean distance between a person’s home and the A&E department that they attended was 7.2 kilometres (km) (4.4 miles), with a median of 4.2 km (2.6
miles), based on analysis of 13 million attendances in 2011/12. Eighty-four percent of these attendances were by people living within 12 km (7.5 miles) of a major A&E department.
• The mean distance from hospital to home for an emergency admission was 8.7 km (5.4 miles), with a median of 5.5 km (3.4 miles), based on five million emergency admissions in 2011/12. Seventy per cent of emergency admissions occurred within 10 km of a person’s home, and very few people (3 per cent) were admitted to a hospital over 30 km (18.6 miles) away from their home.

Don't make me laugh:

But you are trying to define "the sticks" based upon your own made up metrics.

Why can't I do the same?
On your map to the left of the hospital is a very large area or green without a road running through it
Getting a haircut before 9am is hard
Getting breakfast before 8am on a Sunday is hard
Very few decent places to eat
House prices per sq metre suggest borderline sticks

NB: medical professionals would suggest persuading the ambulance drive past Epsom and take you to a better hospital

capt_slog

I know most adverts are annoying but the one that particularly annoys me at the moment are the ones for Ubereats.(?)

The ones where the chap walks in with a load of food and no-one seems bothered that he's there. He has to tempt them. Why the hell did they order it?

morstar

Daughter looking at a job opportunity in Denmark and finding the visa may well be problematic to come by.

At least some racist twunt somewhere is happy.

rick_chasey

morstar said:

Daughter looking at a job opportunity in Denmark and finding the visa may well be problematic to come by.

At least some racist twunt somewhere is happy.

Sorry to hear that. Fingers crossed you get it solved.

veronese68

rick_chasey said:

morstar said:

Daughter looking at a job opportunity in Denmark and finding the visa may well be problematic to come by.

At least some racist twunt somewhere is happy.

Sorry to hear that. Fingers crossed you get it solved.

This, although I don't think it's trivial

pinno

surrey_commuter said:

But you are trying to define "the sticks" based upon your own made up metrics.

Why can't I do the same?
On your map to the left of the hospital is a very large area or green without a road running through it
Getting a haircut before 9am is hard
Getting breakfast before 8am on a Sunday is hard
Very few decent places to eat
House prices per sq metre suggest borderline sticks

NB: medical professionals would suggest persuading the ambulance drive past Epsom and take you to a better hospital

Fine. Use someone else's 'metrics' [The phrase finder]:

Definition of the sticks
informal
: an area in the country that is far away from towns and cities

Notice the bit in bold.

If that single definition is insufficient [Mariam Webster]:

in the sticks

In the countryside, especially in a rustic or particularly unsophisticated area.

You can't describe Epsom as 'unsophisticated'.

Just for good measure [Collins English dictionary]:

the sticks
in British English
informal
a rural area considered remote or backward

...and Epsom definitively cannot be classed as 'remote'.

veronese68

Londoners referring to the sticks is very much tongue in cheek. It bears no resemblance to the real world. There are some people that won't live beyond the outer reaches of zone 2 🙄

Pross

pinno said:

surrey_commuter said:

But you are trying to define "the sticks" based upon your own made up metrics.

Why can't I do the same?
On your map to the left of the hospital is a very large area or green without a road running through it
Getting a haircut before 9am is hard
Getting breakfast before 8am on a Sunday is hard
Very few decent places to eat
House prices per sq metre suggest borderline sticks

NB: medical professionals would suggest persuading the ambulance drive past Epsom and take you to a better hospital

Fine. Use someone else's 'metrics' [The phrase finder]:

Definition of the sticks
informal
: an area in the country that is far away from towns and cities

Notice the bit in bold.

If that single definition is insufficient [Mariam Webster]:

in the sticks

In the countryside, especially in a rustic or particularly unsophisticated area.

You can't describe Epsom as 'unsophisticated'.

Just for good measure [Collins English dictionary]:

the sticks
in British English
informal
a rural area considered remote or backward

...and Epsom definitively cannot be classed as 'remote'.

I'm pretty sure that SC (tongue in cheek or otherwise) is suggesting exactly that some of those apply to Epsom (unsophisticated / backwards).

shirley_basso

veronese68 said:

Londoners referring to the sticks is very much tongue in cheek. It bears no resemblance to the real world. There are some people that won't live beyond the outer reaches of zone 2 🙄

Outer reaches !!?? Shock horror

rick_chasey

Always fun when the wife’s favourite programme has a character killed by being hit by a car whilst on their bike

veronese68

shirley_basso said:

veronese68 said:

Londoners referring to the sticks is very much tongue in cheek. It bears no resemblance to the real world. There are some people that won't live beyond the outer reaches of zone 2 🙄

Outer reaches !!?? Shock horror

You're just an emigree like Chasey

rjsterry

rick_chasey said:

Always fun when the wife’s favourite programme has a character killed by being hit by a car whilst on their bike

TBF, his riding was pretty poor and the moment everyone was leaving voicemails you knew what was coming. Still not fun.

rick_chasey

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

First.Aspect

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

rick_chasey

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

First.Aspect

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Stevo_666

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

hamish_mctavish

masjer said:

I'm not sure if I class myself as living in the sticks, more farmland, but trivially annoying is my car has just had a safety recall. The steering airbag emblem apparently over time goes brittle. To get this 5 gram piece of plastic replaced is a 130 mile round trip! I've ignored it so far.

I have ignored this for three years now. The garage switches the warning light off for long enough to get it through the MOT and as I drive off, it comes back on.

First.Aspect

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

You don't think the people who invented a vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives are the right people?

Stevo_666

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

You don't think the people who invented a vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives are the right people?

OK, so you decide then? How pharma companies reward their employees is their own internal matter and what employees sign up to when they join is their choice. Same will apply for many other worthy drugs produced, not just the ones that are in the news.

First.Aspect

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

You don't think the people who invented a vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives are the right people?

OK, so you decide then? How pharma companies reward their employees is their own internal matter and what employees sign up to when they join is their choice. Same will apply for many other worthy drugs produced, not just the ones that are in the news.

I'm responding to RC's evangelical praise of worthy business leaders.

Stevo_666

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

You don't think the people who invented a vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives are the right people?

OK, so you decide then? How pharma companies reward their employees is their own internal matter and what employees sign up to when they join is their choice. Same will apply for many other worthy drugs produced, not just the ones that are in the news.

I'm responding to RC's evangelical praise of worthy business leaders.

Good. I was concerned you were on the slippery slope to leftiebollox for a minute.

First.Aspect

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

You don't think the people who invented a vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives are the right people?

OK, so you decide then? How pharma companies reward their employees is their own internal matter and what employees sign up to when they join is their choice. Same will apply for many other worthy drugs produced, not just the ones that are in the news.

I'm responding to RC's evangelical praise of worthy business leaders.

Good. I was concerned you were on the slippery slope to leftiebollox for a minute.

Obviously I get the economic value of IP and don't buy into the naive arguments that we should all share. That way, less gets invented and less gets shared.

Inventor (and scientist) renumeration in general is tricky. Certainly here, in industry we undervalue scientists and over value managers that blindly hack around and somehow don't prevent science from happening. But if you make inventor rewards too high, it disincentivises companies from protecting IP in the first place.

Lots of headroom for both, though, I would say.

Stevo_666

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

You don't think the people who invented a vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives are the right people?

OK, so you decide then? How pharma companies reward their employees is their own internal matter and what employees sign up to when they join is their choice. Same will apply for many other worthy drugs produced, not just the ones that are in the news.

I'm responding to RC's evangelical praise of worthy business leaders.

Good. I was concerned you were on the slippery slope to leftiebollox for a minute.

Obviously I get the economic value of IP and don't buy into the naive arguments that we should all share. That way, less gets invented and less gets shared.

Inventor (and scientist) renumeration in general is tricky. Certainly here, in industry we undervalue scientists and over value managers that blindly hack around and somehow don't prevent science from happening. But if you make inventor rewards too high, it disincentivises companies from protecting IP in the first place.

Lots of headroom for both, though, I would say.

Reality is that most employees sign up to contracts saying that IP you create on the job automatically belongs to your employer - me included. (I guess that if you are in a job where you can create something valuable and that skill is in short supply then you can negotiate something on the way in).

That said if I did create something valuable I would expect to get a good/better bonus. Unfortunately I'm not on a percentage of what I keep out of the hands of greedy/unscrupulous tax administrations otherwise I'd be writing this from my own Caribbean island.

rick_chasey

First.Aspect said:

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Other things that annoy me.

Press reports of the mRNA vaccine company bosses earning a lot of money the last 2 years.

Of course they've earned a lot of money. Of all the people who deserve to have earned a lot of money, the firms and the staff behind the vaccines should be right up there?!

Did the press reports say anything about the staff behind the vaccines earning a lot of money?

You don't think running the company that develops this stuff is worth much?

I think only that person, or small group of people, have renumeration that reflects this. The scientists will not, the inventors will receive a book token of theor name is on a patent (in most companies)

Still sure the right people are getting rich?

Depends what's in your contract I guess. Otherwise who decides who the right people are?

You don't think the people who invented a vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives are the right people?

No-one saying that tbf. Because they're not on the board their comp doesn't need to be disclosed.

I did NCT with someone who work at AZ and they were on the periphery of the jab work and they did pretty well out of it themselves by the sounds of it.