Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

shirley_basso

Get the Costco stuff. We have it in the drawer and tears perfectly - strong stuff and comes in 200m rolls (or more)

Same with tin foil - the serrated edge is razor sharp and works really well.

Pross

Yeah I realised that, I was just having a joke at your expense.

Pross

If I make an error typing on my iPhone I don’t seem to be able to put the cursor at the offending letter to delete it and can only put it in the space between words and delete backwards from there.

pblakeney

Pross said:

If I make an error typing on my iPhone I don’t seem to be able to put the cursor at the offending letter to delete it and can only put it in the space between words and delete backwards from there.

Hold your finger on the word for a second and an enlarged version pops up that you can scroll along.

briantrumpet

Pross said:

If I make an error typing on my iPhone I don’t seem to be able to put the cursor at the offending letter to delete it and can only put it in the space between words and delete backwards from there.

Doesn't it work to do a long press on the space bar, then you can slide left/right to move the cursor?

photonic69

Seemingly trivial things that annoy you.. ..

Not being able to edit text on an iPhone

Pross

Not being able to do it as intuitively (for me) as on my Samsung where I just tapped in front of the letter I wanted to delete and hit the backspace.

Brian’s solution works but I don’t get why I can’t just tap where I want the cursor to go which is less convoluted

Pross

pblakeney said:

Pross said:

If I make an error typing on my iPhone I don’t seem to be able to put the cursor at the offending letter to delete it and can only put it in the space between words and delete backwards from there.

Hold your finger on the word for a second and an enlarged version pops up that you can scroll along.

Doesn’t seem to work for me, just brings up the copy / cut options.

pinno

Tap it with a hammer.

Pussonally, I use the speak-text lots.

Pross

Also, not sure if this is phone or forum related but it used to be that if I hit the quote button the view would move to the dialogue box whereas now it stays on the post I’m trying to quote so it looks like nothing happened. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve hit quote multiple times before remembering and scrolling down to find the same quote repeated several times.

pblakeney

Pross said:

pblakeney said:

Pross said:

If I make an error typing on my iPhone I don’t seem to be able to put the cursor at the offending letter to delete it and can only put it in the space between words and delete backwards from there.

Hold your finger on the word for a second and an enlarged version pops up that you can scroll along.

Doesn’t seem to work for me, just brings up the copy / cut options.

Okay, so it seems to depend on the app being used, but Brian's version works. Strangely I have had an iPhone since the 3S and I've never noticed. Not saying it's right just funny.

morstar

Cool editing shit here. Every day’s a school day.
Now for the million dollar question…
Will I remember any of this tomorrow?

briantrumpet

Pross said:

I don’t get why I can’t just tap where I want the cursor to go which is less convoluted

Too easy/obvious, obvs.

morstar

Traffic news on the BBC regional news.
All the motorway updates are given by areas and not motorway junctions.
I have pretty good geographical knowledge and recall but have no idea where they are on about most of the time. I doubt many would unless it was their more local area. If I’m using the motorways, I’m quite probably leaving my local area.
Why on earth don’t they use junction numbers?

rick_chasey

lol consider yourself the minority if you remember junction numbers.

Northbound / southbound near whatever is much much easier.

pblakeney

rick_chasey said:

lol consider yourself the minority if you remember junction numbers.

Northbound / southbound near whatever is much much easier.

You don't need to remember them if you are on the road.
Road signs will tell you which junctions you are at so you know the incident is "x" junctions away.
Near Wigan may help, near Appleton Thorn not so much. J20 is more helpful.

mully79

I lived 2 junctions away from Simister island which is a staple traffic jam reporting spot in manchester and never actually knew where it was.

orraloon

mully79 said:

I lived 2 junctions away from Simister island which is a staple traffic jam reporting spot in manchester and never actually knew where it was.

What I have learned today! That name comes up a lot on radio traffic reports and I've always heard it as Sinister island. Don't think I've ever been there.

morstar

mully79 said:

I lived 2 junctions away from Simister island which is a staple traffic jam reporting spot in manchester and never actually knew where it was.

I know for a fact I have been through it many times but have zero idea where it is.

morstar

rick_chasey said:

lol consider yourself the minority if you remember junction numbers.

Northbound / southbound near whatever is much much easier.

So, if you’re going to use a motorway for any sort of distance, you know all the local names of places along the way and where they are in relation to your journey.
Bearing in mind the local
name of junctions isn’t necessarily clear from a map. E.g. Simister island.
Junction numbers and direction of travel far easier to identify on both map and audibly if travelling on the motorway at the time.
But regardless of how we process info, both would be easy enough to announce.

e.g. Southbound at Standish jct 27.

rick_chasey

morstar said:

rick_chasey said:

lol consider yourself the minority if you remember junction numbers.

Northbound / southbound near whatever is much much easier.

So, if you’re going to use a motorway for any sort of distance, you know all the local names of places along the way and where they are in relation to your journey.
Bearing in mind the local
name of junctions isn’t necessarily clear from a map. E.g. Simister island.
Junction numbers and direction of travel far easier to identify on both map and audibly if travelling on the motorway at the time.
But regardless of how we process info, both would be easy enough to announce.

e.g. Southbound at Standish jct 27.

The reports are for the people who are going to be getting onto the road, rather than the people on the road, surely?

morstar

rick_chasey said:

morstar said:

rick_chasey said:

lol consider yourself the minority if you remember junction numbers.

Northbound / southbound near whatever is much much easier.

So, if you’re going to use a motorway for any sort of distance, you know all the local names of places along the way and where they are in relation to your journey.
Bearing in mind the local
name of junctions isn’t necessarily clear from a map. E.g. Simister island.
Junction numbers and direction of travel far easier to identify on both map and audibly if travelling on the motorway at the time.
But regardless of how we process info, both would be easy enough to announce.

e.g. Southbound at Standish jct 27.

The reports are for the people who are going to be getting onto the road, rather than the people on the road, surely?

That’s why I clarified for both.
The area covered by BBC north west is huge. I challenge anybody to know all the towns junctions are named after.
If I am staying in an area I don’t know elsewhere in the country and they use local names, I need a map to work out where they mean. Whereas if I got off the motorway at jct x the previous day, I would have a vague idea of whether what they are announcing is close by without a map.

pinno

Even my spoken sat nav gives me junction numbers...

"Turn left at junction 69, towards Gateshead..."
Much better than place names. I used to deliver all over the country and Junction numbers are far less ambiguous than place names/places that the junction is near.
Take any large urban area and there will be more than 1 junction/entry point. Knowing the exact junction you want is far easier.
Imagine going around the M25 without Junction numbers when each destination within the orbital have multiple routes. You can spend a long time going the long way because you got off the motorway at one junction when you should have got off at the next one.
Potters Bar: 4 possible routes off the M25.
If you want to get to Brookmans Park, you may as well go up the M1 and down the A1000 rather than take J24 and traipse through Potters Bar. Or if you wanted to get to Hatfield (even though it's sign posted with Potters Bar) , you wouldn't get off at J24.
You would continue up the M1 and take either J2, J3 or J4.

lesfirth

orraloon said:

mully79 said:

I lived 2 junctions away from Simister island which is a staple traffic jam reporting spot in manchester and never actually knew where it was.

What I have learned today! That name comes up a lot on radio traffic reports and I've always heard it as Sinister island. Don't think I've ever been there.

I do not know why radio traffic reports use local names for motorway junctions that only some locals know about. I also live near Simister Island so I do know where that is but the other side of Manchester has Roscoes roundabout that is used on local traffic reports.I have no idea where it is. I can not find it on any map.It makes no sense at all. At least you can find a junction by number on a map.

photonic69

... when my Sat Nav tells me it has found a route that is 10 minutes quicker...is it REALLY?

rick_chasey

That's the modern way.

Stick waze on, follow it blindly, music via spotify & bluetooth, never have to deal with an annoying radio station ever gain.

Waze is sensational. Easily one of the best ever free apps.

kingstongraham

It's taken one of the few topics of uncontroversial middle aged male conversation away. I got asked "which way you going to x" and just had nothing. Couldn't even talk about the best lay-bys on the way.

rick_chasey

Glorious isn't it?

Honestly, I can't speak highly enough of it. Sensational app. 10/10 no complaints.

photonic69

rick_chasey said:

Waze is sensational. Easily one of the best ever free apps.

except Waze is a bite sh!te taking me the wrong way down oneway streets and over bridges that are not open to traffic...

surrey_commuter

rick_chasey said:

Glorious isn't it?

Honestly, I can't speak highly enough of it. Sensational app. 10/10 no complaints.

As somebody who is in love with Google Maps Go I am all ears to hear how Waze can be even better.

I answer to the "10 mins quicker" it is based upn real time info from Android users on the roads ahead.