Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

pblakeney

TheBigBean said:

Ben6899 said:

Seeing Facebook posts of people who I know voted to leave the EU, suddenly having holiday plans thrown into disarray because third country rules on passport issue date/time remaining are tighter than member state rules.

(Worth sharing the issue here, actually. If your passport issue date is August 2012 or earlier, you’ll need a new one despite its expiry date)

The problem is that the EU rules are supposed to be 10 years from issue at the date of entry, but some countries/airlines haven't received the message.

I always thought it was 6 months from expiry worldwide and that it was the EU that was the anomaly. I could well be wrong.

Ben6899

TheBigBean said:

Ben6899 said:

Seeing Facebook posts of people who I know voted to leave the EU, suddenly having holiday plans thrown into disarray because third country rules on passport issue date/time remaining are tighter than member state rules.

(Worth sharing the issue here, actually. If your passport issue date is August 2012 or earlier, you’ll need a new one despite its expiry date)

The problem is that the EU rules are supposed to be 10 years from issue at the date of entry, but some countries/airlines haven't received the message.

That's the issue this particular person is having. They have an eleven year passport (as do I, as it happens), expiring Spring 2023. Issue date was Spring 2012; they're going on holiday (or not, as the case may be!) Summer 2022... so it's not even a technicality with- entry dates.

Formerly - my understanding at least for the EU, when UK was a member state - you could have mere days left on the expiry date (regardless of issue date) and not have any problems.

(It's admittedly a bit of unashamed schadenfreude on my part, but if you vote to leave the EU because you're "hard-working, good honest English person and the "elites" need to be taught a lesson", then make sure you have your ducks in a row and make sure it's not you that ends up being taught any lessons. So-called "elites" tend to be such because they stay informed and ahead of the game.)

TheBigBean

pblakeney said:

TheBigBean said:

Ben6899 said:

Seeing Facebook posts of people who I know voted to leave the EU, suddenly having holiday plans thrown into disarray because third country rules on passport issue date/time remaining are tighter than member state rules.

(Worth sharing the issue here, actually. If your passport issue date is August 2012 or earlier, you’ll need a new one despite its expiry date)

The problem is that the EU rules are supposed to be 10 years from issue at the date of entry, but some countries/airlines haven't received the message.

I always thought it was 6 months from expiry worldwide and that it was the EU that was the anomaly. I could well be wrong.

It is, but the EU is struggling to sort out its own rules in this case.

pblakeney

TheBigBean said:

pblakeney said:

TheBigBean said:

Ben6899 said:

Seeing Facebook posts of people who I know voted to leave the EU, suddenly having holiday plans thrown into disarray because third country rules on passport issue date/time remaining are tighter than member state rules.

(Worth sharing the issue here, actually. If your passport issue date is August 2012 or earlier, you’ll need a new one despite its expiry date)

The problem is that the EU rules are supposed to be 10 years from issue at the date of entry, but some countries/airlines haven't received the message.

I always thought it was 6 months from expiry worldwide and that it was the EU that was the anomaly. I could well be wrong.

It is, but the EU is struggling to sort out its own rules in this case.

Simple strategy is to forget the past and treat the EU as the rest of the World.

TheBigBean

pblakeney said:

TheBigBean said:

pblakeney said:

TheBigBean said:

Ben6899 said:

Seeing Facebook posts of people who I know voted to leave the EU, suddenly having holiday plans thrown into disarray because third country rules on passport issue date/time remaining are tighter than member state rules.

(Worth sharing the issue here, actually. If your passport issue date is August 2012 or earlier, you’ll need a new one despite its expiry date)

The problem is that the EU rules are supposed to be 10 years from issue at the date of entry, but some countries/airlines haven't received the message.

I always thought it was 6 months from expiry worldwide and that it was the EU that was the anomaly. I could well be wrong.

It is, but the EU is struggling to sort out its own rules in this case.

Simple strategy is to forget the past and treat the EU as the rest of the World.

Eh? The EU is at odds with the rest of the world which was surely your point in the post above.

Oh, you meant, previously the EU was anomaly when the UK was in the EU? The EU is the anomaly because it worries about the date of issue - the rest of the world only worries about the expiry.

pblakeney

TheBigBean said:

pblakeney said:

TheBigBean said:

pblakeney said:

TheBigBean said:

Ben6899 said:

Seeing Facebook posts of people who I know voted to leave the EU, suddenly having holiday plans thrown into disarray because third country rules on passport issue date/time remaining are tighter than member state rules.

(Worth sharing the issue here, actually. If your passport issue date is August 2012 or earlier, you’ll need a new one despite its expiry date)

The problem is that the EU rules are supposed to be 10 years from issue at the date of entry, but some countries/airlines haven't received the message.

I always thought it was 6 months from expiry worldwide and that it was the EU that was the anomaly. I could well be wrong.

It is, but the EU is struggling to sort out its own rules in this case.

Simple strategy is to forget the past and treat the EU as the rest of the World.

Eh? The EU is at odds with the rest of the world which was surely your point in the post above.

My point is that the EU was the anomaly while we were in the EU. Past tense.

capt_slog

On Monday, it was the village's MayDay gala. A few stalls and things happening on the village green.

We met my son and his wife there, along with my grandson who is around 20 months old. He's walking and running and although he says a lot of words, his sentences are still just a few jumbles ideas.

There was a vintage double decker bus at the gala. Static, not giving ride or anything, you just got on and had a look around. Although he knows what a bus is, he'd never been on one before, and so I took him.

We went upstairs first, of course, but then just sat on the lower deck looking out of the window, his feet barely reaching the edge of the seat. We must have spent 10 minutes just sitting there and he looked as delighted as if it was the biggest treat in the world.

I think he was probably right.

JimD666

Checking the bank and finding an extra £150 quid. Cornwall Council have finally figured out how to give refunds....

briantrumpet

Some of my students did a concert for babies and parents today - youngest was about 4 months, and it was very much hands-on and interactive. I just love watching babies' faces and reactions to music... well, I love seeing their reactions to just about anything. Knowing that their infant brains are trying to process new incoming sensory stuff, and incorporate it into their hypothesis of how the world they inhabit works is just the best thing. Pure joy.

Pross

My daughter did a fundraiser at the café where she works on Saturday where she did a meet and greet as one of the Disney princesses and sang Disney songs for the kids. There was a little girl there who she had seen before and is very shy but apparently she went up to talk to my daughter and then joined in the songs with her before eventually taking the mic and singing herself.

An email arrived today via my daughter's boss from the girl's mother. It turns out she has various conditions including epilepsy and autism and they never known her speak to anyone she didn't know before let alone sing in front of strangers. The mother was worried that if she started filming the girl would stop but felt she had to send her husband evidence and apparently they were all in tears. Goes to show what a lot of people would consider silly dressing up and singing by an 18 year old can achieve.

Ben6899

Alright, who's chopping onions!?

Pross

My daughter was particularly pleased as the fundraiser was part of charity work she's doing as a Miss Wales finalist (finals this weekend and if she won she would be going into Miss World next year!) and her reason for taking part, having never done anything like that before, was to try to inspire young people with illnesses having undergone cancer treatment as a kid.

briantrumpet

Finding out that simply turning off Javascript for the Telegraph bypasses their paywall.

briantrumpet

The Tories losing a seat in true blue Topsham to Labour, not even the Lib Dems. That's really quite something.

pinno

Pross said:

My daughter was particularly pleased as the fundraiser was part of charity work she's doing as a Miss Wales finalist (finals this weekend and if she won she would be going into Miss World next year!) and her reason for taking part, having never done anything like that before, was to try to inspire young people with illnesses having undergone cancer treatment as a kid.

[Wasn't difficult to find her pic]

It is perhaps that Minnie mouse is not a conventional human face and there's an element of anonymity about that contact the autistic child had. My daughter is on the spectrum and the slightest (perceived) pressure to speak or talk about feelings will yield nothing.
All of her dolls and Lego minifigures have personalities contrived by her yet asking her about personal things, she finds difficult to express.
So perhaps this '3rd party' in the form of Minnie mouse provided a medium in which she felt able to engage.

Pross

pinno said:

Pross said:

My daughter was particularly pleased as the fundraiser was part of charity work she's doing as a Miss Wales finalist (finals this weekend and if she won she would be going into Miss World next year!) and her reason for taking part, having never done anything like that before, was to try to inspire young people with illnesses having undergone cancer treatment as a kid.

[Wasn't difficult to find her pic]

It is perhaps that Minnie mouse is not a conventional human face and there's an element of anonymity about that contact the autistic child had. My daughter is on the spectrum and the slightest (perceived) pressure to speak or talk about feelings will yield nothing.
All of her dolls and Lego minifigures have personalities contrived by her yet asking her about personal things, she finds difficult to express.
So perhaps this '3rd party' in the form of Minnie mouse provided a medium in which she felt able to engage.

I think it is something along those lines although in this case she was dressed as Sleeping Beauty so very much an obvious human but I suspect it is definitely something along the lines of it being some magical character seen in their favourite cartoon film rather than a normal, everyday person.

surrey_commuter

briantrumpet said:

Finding out that simply turning off Javascript for the Telegraph bypasses their paywall.

In Waitrose when buying loose vegetables always chose "carrots" on the till as they are the cheapest option

briantrumpet

surrey_commuter said:

briantrumpet said:

Finding out that simply turning off Javascript for the Telegraph bypasses their paywall.

In Waitrose when buying loose vegetables always chose "carrots" on the till as they are the cheapest option

I suppose that both are theft.

TheBigBean

surrey_commuter said:

briantrumpet said:

Finding out that simply turning off Javascript for the Telegraph bypasses their paywall.

In Waitrose when buying loose vegetables always chose "carrots" on the till as they are the cheapest option

Missing your point completely, but I'm always amazed just how cheap carrots are.

briantrumpet

Finally getting the (105) front mech on the Colnago adjusted so it doesn't take more than one go to shift to the big ring.

Dunno about anyone else, but I find it really hard to get the cable tight enough on the little ring setting (even with an in-line cable adjuster) so that it goes far enough to go to the big ring. Well, I know part of it was that the front mech was also a bit too high, but I still find it tricky. Maybe there's a knack, or maybe I'm missing something.

It would be quite nice if there were a simple integrated adjuster like there is with the rear mech.

pblakeney

Dunno about 105 but Campagnolo (2011-2015 and up to date Centaur) is designed to be 3 clicks, and won't work with 1 click no matter how hard you try. I tried. 2 clicks is a possibility.

masjer

I don't know what incarnation of 105 you have, but the later ones have an extra down shift (low trim position). That extra down shift position is where you need to be when setting cable tension.
The other possibility is the cable is mounted on the wrong side of the clamp bolt.
On large cassette ring and small chainring (lightest gear) have the derailleur almost touching the chain -again in that lowest position.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

I don't know what incarnation of 105 you have, but the later ones have an extra down shift. That extra down shift position is where you need to be when setting cable tension.
The other possibility is the cable is mounted on the wrong side of the clamp bolt.
On large cassette ring and small chainring (lightest gear) have the derailleur almost touching the chain -again in that lowest position.

Re cable & clamp bolt, which side should it be? I've got it on the inside, which makes more sense for the leverage. Or maybe it doesn't... 🤔

Was a 2012 105, so dunno, but I make sure I do more than one click to get all tension off before tensioning for clamping. But still seems faffy.

masjer

2012, you don't have that low trim function. And the cable sounds correct too, nearest to the frame.

morstar

Use the limit screw to push the derailleur across a bit when fitting the cable.

Then undo the adjuster back to where it needs to be and it will bring in the slack. It doesn’t need much.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

2012, you don't have that low trim function. And the cable sounds correct too, nearest to the frame.

Thanks - couldn't feel an extra click. Well, at least I've got it sorted for now!! Won't need a new cable for a couple of years, all being well.

masjer

Some inline cable adjusters screw themselves (i hope that's not censored) back in over time. Some almost lock with a ratchet type mech- I like the Sram ones.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

Some inline cable adjusters screw themselves (i hope that's not censored) back in over time. Some almost lock with a ratchet type mech- I like the Sram ones.

Might get myself a couple for the next time I replace the outers.

pinno

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

Some inline cable adjusters screw themselves (i hope that's not censored) back in over time. Some almost lock with a ratchet type mech- I like the Sram ones.

Might get myself a couple for the next time I replace the outers.

If you have the old down tube mounts, you can deploy the Shimano adjusters. They are really good. Failing that, treat yourself to some Campag

briantrumpet

Leading this lovely lot of young musicians in a public concert for the first time since February 2020. Can't tell you how joyful it is.

Actually, it's not trivial at all. Sorry.