Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    edited December 2022
    mully79 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? 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.
    On the plus side, you'll be able to transfer from your old phone very easily. Power would obviously be a bonus though.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    mully79 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? 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.
    Ah! I missed the "female" in your OP. Your comment above is quite correct.
    Why they wouldn't supply the appropriate plug is beyond me.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    rick_chasey said:

    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…

    Disappointed my grate chat has been usurped by wire end chat
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    When did everyone decide because I’m bald and I go to Italy on holiday that I like everything about Stanley Tucci?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,947
    rick_chasey said:

    rick_chasey said:

    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…

    Disappointed my grate chat has been usurped by wire end chat
    It might be a bit too specific if nobody else on here happens to cycle over that particular piece of ironwork?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Stevo_666 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    rick_chasey said:

    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…

    Disappointed my grate chat has been usurped by wire end chat
    It might be a bit too specific if nobody else on here happens to cycle over that particular piece of ironwork?
    Can extended it to metal grates in obviously braking zones for bicycles..!
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,947
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    rick_chasey said:

    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…

    Disappointed my grate chat has been usurped by wire end chat
    It might be a bit too specific if nobody else on here happens to cycle over that particular piece of ironwork?
    Can extended it to metal grates in obviously braking zones for bicycles..!
    True. I tend to avoid them.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    edited December 2022
    rick_chasey said:

    rick_chasey said:

    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…

    Disappointed my grate chat has been usurped by wire end chat
    It’s not a grate, it’s a solid cover. Position is crap but my guess is it was in the middle of the road previously and the footway was widened. The cover shows it’s Verizon kit so possibly fibre optics which cost a fortune to move (I did a job recently for 4 houses and there was a fairly innocuous looking BT chamber near the proposed entrance. Turned out it contained the main supplies into Hereford and would have cost well over a million to lower. Luckily when they opened it up they found the kit was deep enough to be under the new road).

    They should at least change the covers to be anti-slip though.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,461
    I find it annoying that the UK insists on running vital infrastructure under vital infrastructure, i.e. roads. So that maintenance of one damages the other and inconveniences everyone.

    What is the aversion to putting cables under pavements or grass verges?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    edited December 2022
    First.Aspect said:

    I find it annoying that the UK insists on running vital infrastructure under vital infrastructure, i.e. roads. So that maintenance of one damages the other and inconveniences everyone.

    What is the aversion to putting cables under pavements or grass verges?

    If following the guidelines then most services other than sewers would be in the footway (inconveniencing pedestrians rather than motorists is far more acceptable after all as we know from pavement parking). Everything has its recommended position, depth and duct colour which is great in theory but when you have multiple ducts for communications then other things such as traffic signal ducting, CCTV etc. and roads have been widened or narrowed over the years it rarely works in practice outside of shiny new housing developments

    http://streetworks.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/V1-Positioning-Colour-Coding-Issue-8.pdf
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,287
    rick_chasey said:

    When did everyone decide because I’m bald and I go to Italy on holiday that I like everything about Stanley Tucci?

    Doesn't everyone like everything about Stanley Tucci?
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,894
    I'm tall, hairy, half Italian and I like Stanley Tucci. Maybe we can make it an age thing then Rick could justify it somehow.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,947
    That's the second person in a couple of days Ive had to Google. First one being Andrew Tate.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited December 2022
    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    When did everyone decide because I’m bald and I go to Italy on holiday that I like everything about Stanley Tucci?

    Doesn't everyone like everything about Stanley Tucci?
    He’s fine. Progs are fine. I’ve never given a view on him but everyone I speak to people assume I love him and I now have his biography courtesy of Santa.

    I say this tongue in cheek, but he’s a pain in the back side for us baldies as he makes looking cool and bald very easy, which it is when you’re an American Italian film star.

    It’s amusing people just subconsciously assume the baldie solidarity.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Stevo_666 said:

    That's the second person in a couple of days Ive had to Google. First one being Andrew Tate.

    There’s a slight difference to an Internet troll and a Hollywood actor with a lengthy career surely?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    rick_chasey said:


    ...
    I say this tongue in cheek, but he’s a pain in the back side for us baldies as he makes looking cool and bald very easy, which it is when you’re an American Italian film star.
    ...

    Maybe it's just you that finds it uncool and very hard. My grandchildren think I look funny when they see old photos of me with hair, and being bald is very easy.
    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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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Certain jokes don’t work on the forum, clearly.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,947
    Pross said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    That's the second person in a couple of days Ive had to Google. First one being Andrew Tate.

    There’s a slight difference to an Internet troll and a Hollywood actor with a lengthy career surely?
    Massive difference obviously: my only point was that I hadn't heard of either until the last couple of days.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Stevo_666 said:

    Pross said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    That's the second person in a couple of days Ive had to Google. First one being Andrew Tate.

    There’s a slight difference to an Internet troll and a Hollywood actor with a lengthy career surely?
    Massive difference obviously: my only point was that I hadn't heard of either until the last couple of days.
    Was just surprised you hadn’t heard of Tucci.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    TheBigBean said:

    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.

    At least you saved on the beer.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,947
    TheBigBean said:

    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.

    Ditch the family and go with your mates. Much cheaper and much more fun.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    Stevo_666 said:

    TheBigBean said:

    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.

    Ditch the family and go with your mates. Much cheaper and much more fun.
    Stevo_666 said:

    TheBigBean said:

    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.

    Ditch the family and go with your mates. Much cheaper and much more fun.

    And with all the money you've saved by going in term time, you can afford to take the family away in the school holidays.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    edited January 2023
    TheBigBean said:

    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.

    At least you saved on the beer.
    briantrumpet said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    TheBigBean said:

    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.

    Ditch the family and go with your mates. Much cheaper and much more fun.
    Stevo_666 said:

    TheBigBean said:

    The triple hit of post covid plane ticket prices, being restricted to school holidays and buying for an entire family.

    Ditch the family and go with your mates. Much cheaper and much more fun.

    And with all the money you've saved by going in term time, you can afford to take the family away in the school holidays.
    In fact, he will have saved so much by going on holiday during term time that the school holiday will effectively be free.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Pross said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Pross said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    That's the second person in a couple of days Ive had to Google. First one being Andrew Tate.

    There’s a slight difference to an Internet troll and a Hollywood actor with a lengthy career surely?
    Massive difference obviously: my only point was that I hadn't heard of either until the last couple of days.
    Was just surprised you hadn’t heard of Tucci.
    Me neither
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    surrey_commuter said:

    Pross said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Pross said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    That's the second person in a couple of days Ive had to Google. First one being Andrew Tate.

    There’s a slight difference to an Internet troll and a Hollywood actor with a lengthy career surely?
    Massive difference obviously: my only point was that I hadn't heard of either until the last couple of days.
    Was just surprised you hadn’t heard of Tucci.
    Me neither
    +1

    It always amuses me the assumptions I make about what other people know, and what other people assume I and others know. One doesn't know how ignorant one is until one finds out. I find it easiest just to assume I'm ignorant of most things.
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,666
    I assume that about you too Brian, if that helps :)
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,461
    I assume Brian knows everything, but is too polite to say.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    edited January 2023
    First.Aspect said:

    I assume Brian knows everything, but is too polite to say.

    I'm much more likely to listen to someone who, à la Feynman, is aware of their ignorance, and is happy to declare it, alongside the stuff they do have 'some knowledge' of.

    When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.


    and

    You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.


    I'm just hoping that by admitting to be really ignorant, I might turn out to be as clever as Feynman.



    Trouble is, I'm just ignorant.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    I take a similar view with driving. I know I’m not a brilliant driver but reckon accepting and knowing my limits means I’m quite a bit better than average.

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