Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,711
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    rick_chasey said:

    I’m as atheistic as they come but I find most atheists embarrassing, ignorant and downright offensive.

    No one is going to change anyone’s opinion on faith unless they’re asked about it.

    The contempt atheists have for something that people plainly find life enriching is remarkable, and their complaints always seem to be a confusion of simple faith and (geo)politics. Toybee is one of those.

    The ignorance to just dismiss two millennia of organised religious practice, during which at least for 1800 it was the cornerstone of society as “baggage” beggars belief (pun intended).

    Totally by accident I helped convert my best friend who was a son of an archdeacon to atheism and I’m persona non-grata with his family as a result, so I’m surprised to find myself defending religion, but I find myself doing it more and more regularly because of just pathetic behaviour on part of atheists.

    Atheism does not make one superior.

    I think most of them need to grow up and not be so childish about it. Certainly they ought to be less evangelical about it.

    And breathe.

    You okay now hun?
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    First.Aspect said:

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    rick_chasey said:

    I’m as atheistic as they come but I find most atheists embarrassing, ignorant and downright offensive.

    No one is going to change anyone’s opinion on faith unless they’re asked about it.

    The contempt atheists have for something that people plainly find life enriching is remarkable, and their complaints always seem to be a confusion of simple faith and (geo)politics. Toybee is one of those.

    The ignorance to just dismiss two millennia of organised religious practice, during which at least for 1800 it was the cornerstone of society as “baggage” beggars belief (pun intended).

    Totally by accident I helped convert my best friend who was a son of an archdeacon to atheism and I’m persona non-grata with his family as a result, so I’m surprised to find myself defending religion, but I find myself doing it more and more regularly because of just pathetic behaviour on part of atheists.

    Atheism does not make one superior.

    I think most of them need to grow up and not be so childish about it. Certainly they ought to be less evangelical about it.

    And breathe.

    You okay now hun?
    He’s right though. Preachy atheists are proper bores.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,711
    skyblueamateur said:

    First.Aspect said:

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    rick_chasey said:

    I’m as atheistic as they come but I find most atheists embarrassing, ignorant and downright offensive.

    No one is going to change anyone’s opinion on faith unless they’re asked about it.

    The contempt atheists have for something that people plainly find life enriching is remarkable, and their complaints always seem to be a confusion of simple faith and (geo)politics. Toybee is one of those.

    The ignorance to just dismiss two millennia of organised religious practice, during which at least for 1800 it was the cornerstone of society as “baggage” beggars belief (pun intended).

    Totally by accident I helped convert my best friend who was a son of an archdeacon to atheism and I’m persona non-grata with his family as a result, so I’m surprised to find myself defending religion, but I find myself doing it more and more regularly because of just pathetic behaviour on part of atheists.

    Atheism does not make one superior.

    I think most of them need to grow up and not be so childish about it. Certainly they ought to be less evangelical about it.

    And breathe.

    You okay now hun?
    He’s right though. Preachy atheists are proper bores.
    They are messengers not sent by God.
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    😂
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,926
    People's agnosticism towards Elon Musk and the great things he's achieved:
    1. Mass production EV's.
    2. Satellite communication.
    3. Reliable charging network.
    4. Reusable rockets.
    5. Autonomous driving.
    6. Research/progression into a digital/mind interface.
    7. solar roofing.
    8. Lots more things.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 19,558
    Could have sworn there's a thread dedicated to the unconditional love...
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,203
    Bzzzt.

    Solar roof tiles. Don't exist.

    Autonomous driving. No 'kin way. Just google for consequences various.

    C'mon 'zing, to be a paid for influencer you need to Be On It.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,104
    edited December 2022
    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    I know you are supposed to be controversial when writing opinion pieces but do such writers never pause before pressing send to wonder whether they are just being an idiot?



    I thought you'd not like it, and wouldn't agree with its thesis, but given that it's an opinion piece, which Toynbee argues from her strongly atheist viewpoint, I can't see that she's being an idiot.
    It's funny how some prominent Humanists seem to be more focused on being anti-Christian than anything positive. Somehow doubt she would write an article suggesting that we should drop all the religious baggage from Divali or Eid.

    The irony for the Humanists is that they seemingly can't survive without Christianity.

    https://unherd.com/2022/11/humanism-is-a-heresy/

    Happy Christmas 😉
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,094
    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    I know you are supposed to be controversial when writing opinion pieces but do such writers never pause before pressing send to wonder whether they are just being an idiot?



    I thought you'd not like it, and wouldn't agree with its thesis, but given that it's an opinion piece, which Toynbee argues from her strongly atheist viewpoint, I can't see that she's being an idiot.
    It's funny how some prominent Humanists seem to be more focused on being anti-Christian than anything positive. Somehow doubt she would write an article suggesting that we should drop all the religious baggage from Divali or Eid.
    Both Easter and the solstice have been hijacked by Christians from what were originally Pagan rituals (and then commercialised).
    I would prefer a winter solstice feast on the 21st and forget all this mass present giving/shopping fever mania/consumption.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,104
    The earliest known calculations of the date of Easter date from 222 AD in Rome it also relates to the timing of the Jewish festival of Passover. They didn't time it to match a Northern European spring festival that nobody is sure even existed. The date for Christmas was similarly set (9 months after the Annunciation) long before it became fashionable to claim it adopted either the Roman festivals of Saturnalia, Sol Invictus or Northern European Yule.

    A convenient coincidence not hijacking and plenty of the secular stuff has been attached to the religious bit throughout history. Athelstan held court on Christmas Day and distributed gifts - a scene replayed in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,094
    rjsterry said:

    The earliest known calculations of the date of Easter date from 222 AD in Rome it also relates to the timing of the Jewish festival of Passover. They didn't time it to match a Northern European spring festival that nobody is sure even existed. The date for Christmas was similarly set (9 months after the Annunciation) long before it became fashionable to claim it adopted either the Roman festivals of Saturnalia, Sol Invictus or Northern European Yule.

    A convenient coincidence not hijacking and plenty of the secular stuff has been attached to the religious bit throughout history. Athelstan held court on Christmas Day and distributed gifts - a scene replayed in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-15/the-origins-of-easter-from-pagan-roots-to-chocolate-eggs/8440134?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    USB-C. Charger port has just failed on my laptop.
  • mully79
    mully79 Posts: 904
    ive got a new phone that comes with a usb-c to usb-c cable and a usb-c to female usb-a adapter. no mains plug, so no way whatsoever to charge the new phone without going back out to pick up a new cable.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Got a new case for my e-reader for Christmas.
    E-reader died. Fortunately before I’d unpacked the case so can be returned.
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,034
    Strava offering 25% discount off an annual premium sub for users not on premium free trial or currently paying premium.

    Having not, as far as I'm aware, done the usual offer around Black Friday of buying an annual sub as a gift and getting two months free.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,768
    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    Strava offering 25% discount off an annual premium sub for users not on premium free trial or currently paying premium.

    Having not, as far as I'm aware, done the usual offer around Black Friday of buying an annual sub as a gift and getting two months free.

    They sent me countless emails about their 14 months for the price of 12 offer from around the end of November through to Xmas.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,604
    mully79 said:

    ive got a new phone that comes with a usb-c to usb-c cable and a usb-c to female usb-a adapter. no mains plug, so no way whatsoever to charge the new phone without going back out to pick up a new cable.

    You genuinely have no usb-c chargers or a usb-c port on a computer or similar?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,980
    pangolin said:

    mully79 said:

    ive got a new phone that comes with a usb-c to usb-c cable and a usb-c to female usb-a adapter. no mains plug, so no way whatsoever to charge the new phone without going back out to pick up a new cable.

    You genuinely have no usb-c chargers or a usb-c port on a computer or similar?
    Or a usb-a plug? Thought they were ubiquitous.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,094
    pblakeney said:

    pangolin said:

    mully79 said:

    ive got a new phone that comes with a usb-c to usb-c cable and a usb-c to female usb-a adapter. no mains plug, so no way whatsoever to charge the new phone without going back out to pick up a new cable.

    You genuinely have no usb-c chargers or a usb-c port on a computer or similar?
    Or a usb-a plug?
    ...on an extension lead along with sockets.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,711
    Isn't the trivial annoyance that his laptop is broken? Rather than not having an alternative USB charger?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,980
    First.Aspect said:

    Isn't the trivial annoyance that his laptop is broken? Rather than not having an alternative USB charger?

    No. That's TBB.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,980
    edited December 2022
    pinno said:

    pblakeney said:

    pangolin said:

    mully79 said:

    ive got a new phone that comes with a usb-c to usb-c cable and a usb-c to female usb-a adapter. no mains plug, so no way whatsoever to charge the new phone without going back out to pick up a new cable.

    You genuinely have no usb-c chargers or a usb-c port on a computer or similar?
    Or a usb-a plug?
    ...on an extension lead along with sockets.
    Funny you should say that.....
    🤣🤣🤣





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    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,711
    So normally NOTG would have gone to TBB's house to charge the phone, but now that's not possible?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    edited December 2022
    It's trivially annoying for me because someone needs to come round to fix it under guarantee.

    I still think it is the wrong port for laptops, but I'm no fan of micro HDMI either.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    This sort of stuff:

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Also, the placement of this grate: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jAg7iCF3hE46UoED6?g_st=ic

    Which is right where you are braking as you approach the junction.

    Tricky in the wet. You’re also slowing up for a bus route and have seen riders slip on it and slide towards the oncoming bus…
    _
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,034
    First.Aspect said:

    So normally NOTG would have gone to TBB's house to charge the phone, but now that's not possible?

    UwatM8? :D
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  • mully79
    mully79 Posts: 904
    pblakeney said:

    pangolin said:

    mully79 said:

    ive got a new phone that comes with a usb-c to usb-c cable and a usb-c to female usb-a adapter. no mains plug, so no way whatsoever to charge the new phone without going back out to pick up a new cable.

    You genuinely have no usb-c chargers or a usb-c port on a computer or similar?
    Or a usb-a plug? Thought they were ubiquitous.
    The cable has usb-c on both ends. supplying a cable with normal usb at one end would have been the obvious choice.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 16,711
    I'll grant you it's annoying. But if you order by 7 you can remedy the situation.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+c+to+usb&oq=isbc+to+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0i10i512j0i10i433i512j0i10i512l6.4117j0j7&client=ms-android-ee-uk-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

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