Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Just get another car to store the roof box in.0
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Someone near me had a new Mini with a fancy chequered sticker on the roof and mirrors, stripes on the bonnet and a roof box permanently fitted. It just seemed to underline the fact that they'd bought a car that's more about style than function and really shouldn't have.0
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Or get a really big roof box and store the car in it. Don't need a garage then.kingstongraham said:Just get another car to store the roof box in.
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Strava have just raised prices by 50%. I don't do the subscription version anyway so arguably this should go in the trivial thing that cheers me up thread.0
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Not 50%. Combined with 15% staff redundancies, this has the whiff of death spiral to me. As in, internal costs to develop functionality that most of their core users don't want, meaning most of their core users have seen huge cost increases for the same product.rick_chasey said:Inflation is everywhere
They are also creating a void for something simpler and free with a few adverts to step into.
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2021 was their most profitable year by a long long way.First.Aspect said:
Not 50%. Combined with 15% staff redundancies, this has the whiff of death spiral to me. As in, internal costs to develop functionality that most of their core users don't want, meaning most of their core users have seen huge cost increases for the same product.rick_chasey said:Inflation is everywhere
They are also creating a void for something simpler and free with a few adverts to step into.0 -
Peak cycling has past. That was 2021.0
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You've finally got there.rick_chasey said:Inflation is everywhere
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I suspect the news of their demise is somewhat premature. Microsoft Office seems to manage quite well without my financial support, but as I don't need all the bloat they keep on adding, I'm happy with Google stuff, for which I give them just a bit of my soul (and that's not worth much).0
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Can you play the blues on that there trumpet?briantrumpet said:...I give them just a bit of my soul (and that's not worth much).
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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Can you play the blues on that there trumpet?briantrumpet said:...I give them just a bit of my soul (and that's not worth much).
They'd probably try to sue me for breaching someone's copyright.0 -
'Tis true and the sound could reverberate unsympathetically along the corridors of their 6 bedroomed houses.briantrumpet said:pinno said:
Can you play the blues on that there trumpet?briantrumpet said:...I give them just a bit of my soul (and that's not worth much).
They'd probably try to sue me for breaching someone's copyright.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Anything by Leadbelly is fair game now Brian.
But I am not sure I would want to encourage anyone playing the blues with a trumpet, honestly. It would be kind of up there in the "just no" stakes with orchestral versions of pop music or Xmas records sung by children's choirs.0 -
I was going to suggest something about getting the violins out.First.Aspect said:Anything by Leadbelly is fair game now Brian.
But I am not sure I would want to encourage anyone playing the blues with a trumpet, honestly. It would be kind of up there in the "just no" stakes with orchestral versions of pop music or Xmas records sung by children's choirs.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I'd have said this was jazz trumpet but it is blues apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvy7eZuY8sk The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I think of Blues as something more like "on a Monday". If that was done with a trumpet, the alleged murder in the song would be Brian.0
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It's an idiom all by itself, whether it's jazz blues or blues blues, and only to be done by those who really know what they are doing.First.Aspect said:I think of Blues as something more like "on a Monday". If that was done with a trumpet, the alleged murder in the song would be Brian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI 0 -
That's music of the gods, well - one god: King Louis.
I have that on an old CBS double album vinyl along with 2 of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2TUlUwa3_o
...and for sheer melancholy but beautiful nonetheless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcpUdBw7gs seanoconn - gruagach craic!1 -
Yeah alright it's listenable. Bit jazzy for me, but the trumpet isnt being used as a weapon. Probably I'm prejudiced against the trumpet by once having listened to mambo number 5.0
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An antidote to that, maybe... not 'the blues', as such, but...First.Aspect said:Yeah alright it's listenable. Bit jazzy for me, but the trumpet isnt being used as a weapon. Probably I'm prejudiced against the trumpet by once having listened to mambo number 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c
Go pour yourself a large whisky, and stare out of a badly-insulated window to the barren wliderness outside...0 -
What?! You're a soul less heathen FA.First.Aspect said:Yeah alright it's listenable.
I sentence you to this. It should re-connect you with your soul and you'll be cured:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3dPSYgypH4
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Nice.
How did you know my house was badly insulated and looks out if a barren wilderness?0 -
First.Aspect said:
Nice.
How did you know my house was badly insulated and looks out if a barren wilderness?
Wild guess.
Mind you, it is Scottishland, so the odds are...1 -
The pace that people stroll through Costco at. Would delay a funeral march.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
When you enter a Costco, you do so in hope. When you leave, you do so in despair.pblakeney said:The pace that people stroll through Costco at. Would delay a funeral march.
Hope that helps.1 -
Sounds like in this instance the hope is not helping.First.Aspect said:
When you enter a Costco, you do so in hope. When you leave, you do so in despair.pblakeney said:The pace that people stroll through Costco at. Would delay a funeral march.
Hope that helps.0 -
There is an interim stage of slow realisation.rick_chasey said:
Sounds like in this instance the hope is not helping.First.Aspect said:
When you enter a Costco, you do so in hope. When you leave, you do so in despair.pblakeney said:The pace that people stroll through Costco at. Would delay a funeral march.
Hope that helps.
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I console myself with an utterly needless purchase (maybe more) that wasn't on the list.First.Aspect said:
When you enter a Costco, you do so in hope. When you leave, you do so in despair.pblakeney said:The pace that people stroll through Costco at. Would delay a funeral march.
Hope that helps.
Maybe that's their sales plan. 😉The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0
