Negative progress: Kit advances that aren't

bompington

Capt Slog wrote:

******* pedestrian crossings where the light for you to cross is ONLY above the button you press. Great if you're the one who pushed the button or you're near to the light, bloody useless for all the others who can't see it.

The other problem with these is when you are at complex crossing somewhere you're not familiar with, and you don't know if the green man you're crossing on is the direction you're actually walking. WTF was wrong with a red/green man symbol on the opposite side of the road so you can all see it, know which way to walk and how long you have to cross? I'd like to get the person who came up with this idea in a room with a baseball bat.

In keeping with the road safety trend for years now of increasing safety by making things harder, more obscure and more dangerous.
E.g. bushes on the approaches to roundabouts so you can't see whether anything's coming.

pinno

I loved my lace up Adidas Merckx. They were the best shoe ever.

I put the pair on the staircase at my then GF's a long time ago, as I regularly cycled there. One went completely missing. The dad didn't like nor approve of me. I think he hurled it over the fence or into the copse at the back of the house.
He was a c*nt. If you're out there, you know who I am and I still think you are a c*nt. Sorry, lazy, self obsessed, arrogant pig of a man.
Had a great job with BA at Gatwick airport and then ended up being sacked after shagging his sekertary. Silly ass. Then sat around feeling sorry for himself and the bills were piling up. Mum was sole breadwinner and run ragged with 2 very late little one's in the family whilst he sat around doing feck all. Never once saw him change a nappy. Place was always in a state but he would be sat there reading some broadsheet, doing nothing, licking his self inflicted wounds.
I hope you are out there and someone, somewhere mentions some bloke on a Bike Forum who still remembers you for all the wrong reasons.
Oh and another thing, of all the time spent visiting your daughter in intensive care and all the time I spent keeping my humble abode clean and tidy so as not to exacerbate her asthma and you sat around lecturing me about looking after her and not once in the 10 years I was getting treatment did she come and visit.
F*cking ha. It was real, It wasn't some twisted ploy to get some sympathy. Yes, I really did have Leukaemia. Not that you give/gave a farq or even bothered to call the hospital and speak to me or confirm it.
Well, I survived and I still remember you, you miserable c*nt and your self centred and eternally constipated daughter.

One way traffic Mr L from a small village in East Sussex, one way traffic.

Sorry rant over. No references to the advancement of goods either. Hopeless I am.
Where is that rant thread?

Matthewfalle

Pinno wrote:

I loved my lace up Adidas Merckx. They were the best shoe ever.

I put the pair on the staircase at my then GF's a long time ago, as I regularly cycled there. One went completely missing. The dad didn't like nor approve of me. I think he hurled it over the fence or into the copse at the back of the house.
He was a c*nt. If you're out there, you know who I am and I still think you are a c*nt. Sorry, lazy, self obsessed, arrogant pig of a man.
Had a great job with BA at Gatwick airport and then ended up being sacked after shagging his sekertary. Silly ass. Then sat around feeling sorry for himself and the bills were piling up. Mum was sole breadwinner and run ragged with 2 very late little one's in the family whilst he sat around doing feck all. Never once saw him change a nappy. Place was always in a state but he would be sat there reading some broadsheet, doing nothing, licking his self inflicted wounds.
I hope you are out there and someone, somewhere mentions some bloke on a Bike Forum who still remembers you for all the wrong reasons.
Oh and another thing, of all the time spent visiting your daughter in intensive care and all the time I spent keeping my humble abode clean and tidy so as not to exacerbate her asthma and you sat around lecturing me about looking after her and not once in the 10 years I was getting treatment did she come and visit.
F*cking ha. It was real, It wasn't some twisted ploy to get some sympathy. Yes, I really did have Leukaemia. Not that you give/gave a farq or even bothered to call the hospital and speak to me or confirm it.
Well, I survived and I still remember you, you miserable c*nt and your self centred and eternally constipated daughter.

One way traffic Mr L from a small village in East Sussex, one way traffic.

Sorry rant over. No references to the advancement of goods either. Hopeless I am.
Where is that rant thread?

So you're not mates then?

pblakeney

That's his best mate, that is.

pinno

He must be at least 70. I think I could have him.

Matthewfalle

I happy to send hopkinshopkinshopkinshopkins round to kick him in the Gooch if you want.

pinno

Matthewfalle wrote:

I happy to send hopkinshopkinshopkinshopkins round to kick him in the Gooch if you want.

My mate lives just up the road and also has a gripe with him. I'll send him.

cooldad

SecretSam wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

The explosion of SUV's. Heavier, less aero dynamic, consequently uses more fuel. The majority of people don't use them off road, it's just a style thing (loftier position more imposing car).

Many of them have no off road capabilities anyway

FocusZing wrote:

Tattoos. What the hell is wrong with the perfect skin we are born with, wonderful kit. I see people with the most ridiculous sprawl plastered all over them, akin to a building on the wrong side of town.

"Tramp Stamp", ditto ridiculous piercings. "Ooh, look at me, I'm different!"

FocusZing wrote:

Idots buying vinyl again, it was sh1t then and its sh1t now. "Yes but its like D-Ream are playing to me in the room...", feck off! you marketers wet dream.

Yes, yes, yes. Limited capacity, easily damaged, unwieldy and hard to store. Absolute sh17. Hipster idiots with more money than brain cells.

You are indeed a God among ranters. Well played. Have a million upvotes.

Bet those LPs are still playable on a mechanical system when the world's CDs have died, and digital music formats have changed, once again. Remember floppy discs?

pinno

I remember 7" floppies. No, that's not the era before Viagra.

I love my vinyl. I'd love it even more if my Pioneer hadn't frikkin packed up. Going to treat myself to a Technics 1300 MK2 one of these days.

pblakeney

cooldad wrote:

Bet those LPs are still playable on a mechanical system when the world's CDs have died, and digital music formats have changed, once again. Remember floppy discs?

CDs? Mwahahaha!
So last century. Can't give them away.

meanredspider

cooldad wrote:

Bet those LPs are still playable on a mechanical system when the world's CDs have died, and digital music formats have changed, once again. Remember floppy discs?

You can already play pretty much any bit of music ever recorded on YouTube. The quality still needs work but that's just a matter of time.

pinno

Don't be so bloody unromantic.

Garry H

Sheet music is where it's at.

meanredspider

Pinno wrote:

Don't be so bloody unromantic.

Find me this on vinyl 8)

https://youtu.be/Up_N046CnD4

cooldad

meanredspider wrote:

cooldad wrote:

Bet those LPs are still playable on a mechanical system when the world's CDs have died, and digital music formats have changed, once again. Remember floppy discs?

You can already play pretty much any bit of music ever recorded on YouTube. The quality still needs work but that's just a matter of time.

I rest my case. Shitty music deserves shitty formats.

Muddy Waters is spinning in his grave.

pinno

meanredspider wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Don't be so bloody unromantic.

Find me this on vinyl 8)

https://youtu.be/Up_N046CnD4

https://www.rock.com/p/muddy-waters-blu ... s-vinyl-lp

cooldad

I have that on CD, might be last millenium, but sounds a billion times better than Youtube.

meanredspider

Pinno wrote:

meanredspider wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Don't be so bloody unromantic.

Find me this on vinyl 8)

https://youtu.be/Up_N046CnD4

https://www.rock.com/p/muddy-waters-blu ... s-vinyl-lp

Is that the 1946 recording?

meanredspider

cooldad wrote:

I have that on CD, might be last millenium, but sounds a billion times better than Youtube.

So do I - but that's not the point. The point I was making that, in due course (but long before I can no longer play my CD), we will be able to get top-quality downloads in studio quality.

Not that I'm bothered: I worked in a steel mill, I played in a rock band and I used to shoot shotguns - and I've had both eardrums perforated. Top quality is wasted on me.

The point, though, is that you can find just about any music ever recorded (I might even need to upload my band's stuff just to prove a point )

pinno

meanredspider wrote:

Pinno wrote:

meanredspider wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Don't be so bloody unromantic.

Find me this on vinyl 8)

https://youtu.be/Up_N046CnD4

https://www.rock.com/p/muddy-waters-blu ... s-vinyl-lp

Is that the 1946 recording?

No, 1970. Would you want the original in Mono?

meanredspider

Pinno wrote:

No, 1970. Would you want the original in Mono?

Hell, yeah! 8)

Actually, I only read the other day that YouTube is possibly the most complete music resource on the web so I've been testing that by looking for some of the most obscure tracks I know and, so far, it's come up trumps. Quite some nostalgia

"Win a night out with a well-known paranoic" - last heard by me on Annie Nightingale's Sunday night show in the 80's - searched for it a few times before.

pinno

Cannot find "What a little moonlight can do" by the Boisdale Blues Band for love nor money.
Or a the 12" version of Hazel O'Connor's 'Will you'.

meanredspider

Pinno wrote:

Or a the 12" version of Hazel O'Connor's 'Will you'.

Ironically, I think I have that in my vinyl collection

pinno

Well, now all forms of solid state music is defunct, you can pass it on

meanredspider

Pinno wrote:

Well, now all forms of solid state music is defunct, you can pass it on

Id be happy to if it doesn't resemble a pringle. It was possibly 25 years ago I last owned a turntable. God know when I'll get home again to even check for sure that I have it - but I'm 95% certain.

pinno

It's a nice thought but I think you have better things to do at the moment.

meanredspider

Happy to look when I'm back. I've a choice of paying to move stuff from Inverness to Wiltshire or get shot of it. Most of my vinyl comes from late 70's to early 80's - mostly late punk and early New Wave - a few rarities in there but possibly too niche to be of interest to most people.

FocusZing

Curtain rail tracks. What fecal sac came up with that backwards design. A simple pole and rings can't be improved upon.

Kitchen drainers made out of plastic. Sh1t! My parents have a stainless steel one, looks just as good 35 years later. Another flouncey fashion trend.

trivial_poursuivant

Razors with more and more blades that offer lubrication and less irritation but last about 5 minutes then are as blunt as a nuns .......

I used to get at least 2 weeks out of a blade a decade ago. Now I go through a few a week. Utter sh1t

pblakeney

meanredspider wrote:

Happy to look when I'm back. I've a choice of paying to move stuff from Inverness to Wiltshire or get shot of it. Most of my vinyl comes from late 70's to early 80's - mostly late punk and early New Wave - a few rarities in there but possibly too niche to be of interest to most people.

You only need one person to be interested and rarities can be worth a fortune.
Or a bike component at least.