Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

First.Aspect

It's showing as as 8:09. Have you got rotation lock on?

Pross

Shows correctly on the laptop but not on my phone which is odd as my phone is saying the correct time for the time zone. Maybe something changed when I was abroad.

Pross

That’s fixed it. I’d had to set my time zone to Oslo manually as the automatic option didn’t work. For some reason the time had gone back to UK time but the time zone hadn’t been changed, I must have amended it manually. That might also explain why my Garmin kept going an hour ahead whenever I download an activity.

pangolin

Pross said:

Why are posts on here showing to me as being made an hour into the future (e.g this will show as 9.08)? I assume something has happened with my location data. I’ve also noticed the thing is back where I have to decline cookies every few times I open the forum.

Might be a local setting - either your computer or your browser / BR settings. Your post shows as 08:09 for me and this one shows as 09:38.

photonic69

Why can't I buy Salt in my usual Sainsburys supermarket? Been like that for two weeks now?
No headline news of a salt shortage?

photonic69

Also - I turned off my AdBlock Plus on Firefox and still I'm not getting adverts on this BR site. Which is nice. Wish it would stay that way for all other crapulent sites.

photonic69

Why are there so many accidents on the M5 in Somerset between J19 and J24. It seems like there are accidents every 2-3 days causing problems. It's not an exceptional stretch, it's pretty ordinary. If it's not the M-Way it must be the drivers that are exceptionally bad?

pblakeney

photonic69 said:

Why are there so many accidents on the M5 in Somerset between J19 and J24. It seems like there are accidents every 2-3 days causing problems. It's not an exceptional stretch, it's pretty ordinary. If it's not the M-Way it must be the drivers that are exceptionally bad?

Could be wrong but from memory is that roughly where it changes from 3 lanes to 2?

photonic69

pblakeney said:

photonic69 said:

Why are there so many accidents on the M5 in Somerset between J19 and J24. It seems like there are accidents every 2-3 days causing problems. It's not an exceptional stretch, it's pretty ordinary. If it's not the M-Way it must be the drivers that are exceptionally bad?

Could be wrong but from memory is that roughly where it changes from 3 lanes to 2?

No, it's 3 lanes all the way down to Exeter.

pangolin

It's briefly 4 up the hill between 19 and 20, then back to 3. That can't help.

Pross

pblakeney said:

photonic69 said:

Why are there so many accidents on the M5 in Somerset between J19 and J24. It seems like there are accidents every 2-3 days causing problems. It's not an exceptional stretch, it's pretty ordinary. If it's not the M-Way it must be the drivers that are exceptionally bad?

Could be wrong but from memory is that roughly where it changes from 3 lanes to 2?

Drops from 4 to 3 between 20 and 21.

I find it is one of those sections that seems pretty busy but outside of peak holiday season it tends to keep flowing so you have cars bowling along at well over 70mph with virtually no braking gap. I think it was the first stretch I ever saw with the 'keep 2 chevrons apart' markings so I suspect that has been identfied as a particular problem but everyone ignores them.

photonic69

Just a brief search of the dire local news website:

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/search/?q=m5+crash

We always try to avoid it if we can. It just seems to have more than its fair share of problems.

pblakeney

pangolin said:

It's briefly 4 up the hill between 19 and 20, then back to 3. That can't help.

Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. I remember a bottleneck and some dodgy driving with traffic at a wide range of different speeds.

pangolin

pblakeney said:

pangolin said:

It's briefly 4 up the hill between 19 and 20, then back to 3. That can't help.

Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. I remember a bottleneck and some dodgy driving with traffic at a wide range of different speeds.

It's an odd setup - the "new" lane is on the left hand side of the motorway, so people who were in lanes 1 and 2 take half the hill to actually move over to the new 1 and 2, which encourages undertaking.

Then right at the top of the hill the fast lane disappears, so lots of folk speed up as the "merge in 300, 200, 100..." signs go by to get in front of someone before merging.

briantrumpet

photonic69 said:

Why are there so many accidents on the M5 in Somerset between J19 and J24. It seems like there are accidents every 2-3 days causing problems. It's not an exceptional stretch, it's pretty ordinary. If it's not the M-Way it must be the drivers that are exceptionally bad?

Somerset drivers. Said only slightly with tongue in cheek, as I remember cycling from Exeter to Shaftesbury how much more 'interesting' the driving in Somerset was.

First.Aspect

briantrumpet said:

photonic69 said:

Why are there so many accidents on the M5 in Somerset between J19 and J24. It seems like there are accidents every 2-3 days causing problems. It's not an exceptional stretch, it's pretty ordinary. If it's not the M-Way it must be the drivers that are exceptionally bad?

Somerset drivers. Said only slightly with tongue in cheek, as I remember cycling from Exeter to Shaftesbury how much more 'interesting' the driving in Somerset was.

Caravans. On that stretch anyway.

There is never weather bad enough to deter these people from dragging the kids down to Newquay for the weekend.

photonic69

First.Aspect said:

briantrumpet said:

photonic69 said:

Why are there so many accidents on the M5 in Somerset between J19 and J24. It seems like there are accidents every 2-3 days causing problems. It's not an exceptional stretch, it's pretty ordinary. If it's not the M-Way it must be the drivers that are exceptionally bad?

Somerset drivers. Said only slightly with tongue in cheek, as I remember cycling from Exeter to Shaftesbury how much more 'interesting' the driving in Somerset was.

Caravans. On that stretch anyway.

There is never weather bad enough to deter these people from dragging the kids down to Newquay for the weekend.

We saw an X5 dragging a small RIB on a trailer bouncing like f*ck doing about 90/95 in the 3rd lane. Totally oblivious to all around them. Twunts!

secretsqirrel

photonic69 said:

Also - I turned off my AdBlock Plus on Firefox and still I'm not getting adverts on this BR site. Which is nice. Wish it would stay that way for all other crapulent sites.

Just had to check:-
crapulent - adjective
crap·​u·​lent -lənt
archaic : suffering from excessive eating or drinking

About right.

orraloon

Watched a couple of iPlayer episodes of Doctor Who (Tennant and Tate). Scripted by Russell T Davies again. Getting definite vibes of ET, Alien and Star Wars. Just stir the pot and there ye go.

masjer

When watching a YT video and then leaving to another tab, the audio continues playing, but does the video keep playing?

briantrumpet

masjer said:

When watching a YT video and then leaving to another tab, the audio continues playing, but does the video keep playing?

Not if you put your device in the fridge and close the door.

masjer

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

When watching a YT video and then leaving to another tab, the audio continues playing, but does the video keep playing?

Not if you put your device in the fridge and close the door.

That'll just confuse matters further for me, as I won't be able to hear if the audio still works in the fridge.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

When watching a YT video and then leaving to another tab, the audio continues playing, but does the video keep playing?

Not if you put your device in the fridge and close the door.

That'll just confuse matters further for me, as I won't be able to hear if the audio still works in the fridge.

And goodness knows what happens if a tree falls down in a fridge.

masjer

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

When watching a YT video and then leaving to another tab, the audio continues playing, but does the video keep playing?

Not if you put your device in the fridge and close the door.

That'll just confuse matters further for me, as I won't be able to hear if the audio still works in the fridge.

And goodness knows what happens if a tree falls down in a fridge.

I think Schrödinger's cat is stuck up that tree too.
It's things like this that'll keep me up all night.

monkimark

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

When watching a YT video and then leaving to another tab, the audio continues playing, but does the video keep playing?

Not if you put your device in the fridge and close the door.

That'll just confuse matters further for me, as I won't be able to hear if the audio still works in the fridge.

And goodness knows what happens if a tree falls down in a fridge.

I think Schrödinger's cat is stuck up that tree too.

Or is it?

pblakeney

monkimark said:

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

When watching a YT video and then leaving to another tab, the audio continues playing, but does the video keep playing?

Not if you put your device in the fridge and close the door.

That'll just confuse matters further for me, as I won't be able to hear if the audio still works in the fridge.

And goodness knows what happens if a tree falls down in a fridge.

I think Schrödinger's cat is stuck up that tree too.

Or is it?

Yes, it's still a cat.

rjsterry

The weird backlash against wood burning.

Saw this study via some typically poor and wildly misleading science reporting in the Guardian.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023004014?via%3Dihub

One for @"First.Aspect" to get stuck into but the obvious flaw is lumping open hearths in with modern stoves that have combustion fully isolated from the room.

wakemalcolm

I started salivating as soon as I was told it was pavlova for pudding.

First.Aspect

https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21043627#Comment_21043627

Can't find the grauniad article, but whenever you hear about increasing the risk of something by a factor of two, you have to ask what the risk was in the first place.

briantrumpet

https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21043789#Comment_21043789

That was the favourite trick during the pandemic when news was slow... David Spiegelhalter was a good chap to follow.