Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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I don't understand people who drive in central London - do rich people enjoy going so slow?0
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Delivery drivers, tradesmen etc who have to drive in London to do their jobs probably don't enjoy it.kingstongraham said:I don't understand people who drive in central London - do rich people enjoy going so slow?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I don't understand people who choose to drive in central London - do rich people enjoy going so slow?
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Who’s gonna notice your expensive car if you drive fast?kingstongraham said:I don't understand people who choose to drive in central London - do rich people enjoy going so slow?
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How did we manage before we had the media to tell us it’s going to be cold so you need to keep warm.0
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House 3 doors down from us had a fire engine in attendance for over an hour last night. They left the blue lights flashing the whole time so the inside of our house was lit up like some demented disco. No sign of smoke or flames or any unusual smells so I'm intrigued to know what was actually happening.
I can't knock the door and ask; the only time I've spoken to them in 30 years was to tell them my runaway car had partially demolished their garden wall...0 -
Drive your car into their wall, then ask them.Munsford0 said:House 3 doors down from us had a fire engine in attendance for over an hour last night. They left the blue lights flashing the whole time so the inside of our house was lit up like some demented disco. No sign of smoke or flames or any unusual smells so I'm intrigued to know what was actually happening.
I can't knock the door and ask; the only time I've spoken to them in 30 years was to tell them my runaway car had partially demolished their garden wall...1 -
Not got a company car any more so that's not an option...1
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Well in the summer they told us its going to be hot. Can’t fault them.webboo said:How did we manage before we had the media to tell us it’s going to be cold so you need to keep warm.
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Oops!Munsford0 said:House 3 doors down from us had a fire engine in attendance for over an hour last night. They left the blue lights flashing the whole time so the inside of our house was lit up like some demented disco. No sign of smoke or flames or any unusual smells so I'm intrigued to know what was actually happening.
I can't knock the door and ask; the only time I've spoken to them in 30 years was to tell them my runaway car had partially demolished their garden wall...
My van - in gear and with the handbrake on did that but very slowly in the night until there was this very loud knocking on the door. I poked my head out of the bedroom window at 2.30am ish and there was this irate bloke waving his arms and shouting at me. He said '"you don't usually park there". The van had gone down the cul de sac and hit the kerb on the bend blocking his path.
I was very grateful there was no damage but his reaction initially lead me to believe there was some sort of serious injury. Saying 'Calm down' didn't calm him down.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I'd arrived home early from work for an afternoon bike ride in the sun. Left car on the road so wife could park hers on the drive when she got home. Handbrake on but crucially neglected to leave it in gear. Hour later when I'm 15 miles from home on the bike got a call from said wife to say my car was down the hill, honking and flashing merrily, part on the pavement and surrounded by brickwork and broken tail-light. She unreasonably expected me to abandon the rest of my ride; I pointed out that it wasn't going to get any worse and I'd sort it out when I got back.
Retrieved the car before the neighbours came home, and when I later went round to explain why their garden wall had moved three feet to the left they said they hadn't noticed!0 -
Fair question, London is a PITA to drive in. Maybe they don't like mingling too much with the peasants?kingstongraham said:I don't understand people who choose to drive in central London - do rich people enjoy going so slow?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Why does Strava feel the need to hide the start and end of my virtual rides?
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It is a security option so people don't know where you live.mrb123 said:Why does Strava feel the need to hide the start and end of my virtual rides?
IIRC you have to select that option so it is your fault. 🤣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 know that, but virtual rides?? My Rouvy ride last night was the Col d'Honor, Mallorca. I definitely don't live in Bunyola sadly!pblakeney said:
It is a security option so people don't know where you live.mrb123 said:Why does Strava feel the need to hide the start and end of my virtual rides?
IIRC you have to select that option so it is your fault. 🤣0 -
Yeahbut it is an auto setting. For all the bot knows you have moved to Bunyola.mrb123 said:
I know that, but virtual rides?? My Rouvy ride last night was the Col d'Honor, Mallorca. I definitely don't live in Bunyola sadly!pblakeney said:
It is a security option so people don't know where you live.mrb123 said:Why does Strava feel the need to hide the start and end of my virtual rides?
IIRC you have to select that option so it is your fault. 🤣
The bot will think virtual is reality too. 😉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 -
just seen mine does that too. Its so nobody knows where in Makuri Island I store my bike.
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There’s two elements now. There’s always been options to hide ride starting and finishing at home to stop thieves knowing where there is expensive bike kit. You can turn it off in privacy I think. They’ve recently added a default option to hide the start and end of activities undertaken anywhere which I don’t see the point in, I’ve turned it off on mine.0
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I guess a pattern could be established of a regular riding route that establishes where and when you would leave an empty car.Pross said:There’s two elements now. There’s always been options to hide ride starting and finishing at home to stop thieves knowing where there is expensive bike kit. You can turn it off in privacy I think. They’ve recently added a default option to hide the start and end of activities undertaken anywhere which I don’t see the point in, I’ve turned it off on mine.
Arguably slim but tools to at least limit how easily we hand over a history of our movements are not a bad thing.
When my car was new, I briefly used the manufacturer’s app for lots of interesting driving info. Quickly decided I didn’t need to hand a private company the full history of all
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Why in English we call them 'grandchildren', when 'grand' means 'big', as in Grande-Bretagne = Big Britain. In French it's petits-enfants.0
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Why in French do they call them 'petits-enfants', when 'petit' means 'small', as in Petit amis Small-friend = girlfriend. In English, it's Grand children.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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I can see the logic in calling grandparents, grandparents. Maybe it's just a pairing up- grandparents, grandchildren.0
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pinno said:
Why in French do they call them 'petits-enfants', when 'petit' means 'small', as in Petit amis Small-friend = girlfriend. In English, it's Grand children.
Russian dolls ... children - little children - behind little children.
Yes, @masjer - that's the only reason I can see.
Incidentally, 'children' is one of only two plurals (the other being 'oxen') which retain the old English plural '-en'. The use of S for plurals is a terribly modern adoption.0 -
Is brethren a plural? If so, I don't know what the singular is...0
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Brother?Munsford0 said:Is brethren a plural? If so, I don't know what the singular is...
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 -
Plural of brother is brothers though0
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As above, that will be the modern version.Munsford0 said:Plural of brother is brothers though
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 -
Munsford0 said:
Is brethren a plural? If so, I don't know what the singular is...
Ooh, good call!! Make that 'three' then!
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Maybe it's the other way around.Stevo_666 said:
Fair question, London is a PITA to drive in. Maybe they don't like mingling too much with the peasants?kingstongraham said:I don't understand people who choose to drive in central London - do rich people enjoy going so slow?
Modern plural is brothers. Archaic plural is brethren.Munsford0 said:Plural of brother is brothers though
Men is the other obvious one, so that's at least 4.
Women makes 5. And then there are the numerous derivatives ending in men and women.
The -en in chicken or vixen is a diminutive.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Man-men? Woman-women?0
