Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

david7m

Lots of executive cars, not many lorries considering how much faster/predictable it is, but then again it's £6.70 each way for a car.

pinno

I would suggest fewer trucks as their margins are tiny as it is.
Perhaps fewer delivery vans for the same reason.

...and less chav's of course. £6.70 is a packet of fags innit?

orraloon

Owned by IFM Investors, an Australian investment management company owned by Aussie pension funds. And there is no statutory cap on toll rates. Deal put in place by, yes you guessed it, a Conjob government.

dennisn

I'm intrigued by socks that are (supposedly and labeled so) for your right or left foot. This definitely seems an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Now, I do understand the motive behind it all. Make money for sock manufacturers. After all, athletes seem to have tons of disposable income and seem to believe anything a pretty ad in a magazine tells them. Wish I had thought of it. For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing. Let alone buy it.

pinno

orraloon said:

Owned by IFM Investors, an Australian investment management company owned by Aussie pension funds. And there is no statutory cap on toll rates. Deal put in place by, yes you guessed it, a Conjob government.

Yeahbut, they're part of the Commonwealth innit.

imposter2.0

dennisn said:

I'm intrigued by socks that are (supposedly and labeled so) for your right or left foot. This definitely seems an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Now, I do understand the motive behind it all. Make money for sock manufacturers. After all, athletes seem to have tons of disposable income and seem to believe anything a pretty ad in a magazine tells them. Wish I had thought of it. For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing. Let alone buy it.

But you're ok with shoes being designed for the left and right foot - or do you struggle with that concept as well?

Pross

dennisn said:

I'm intrigued by socks that are (supposedly and labeled so) for your right or left foot. This definitely seems an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Now, I do understand the motive behind it all. Make money for sock manufacturers. After all, athletes seem to have tons of disposable income and seem to believe anything a pretty ad in a magazine tells them. Wish I had thought of it. For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing. Let alone buy it.

My running socks are right and left foot, they provide a far better fit and less likelihood of getting blisters. I also have a pair of toe socks, they take some getting used to but again help reduce blisters from toes rubbing against each other especially on technical off-road runs.

pinno

Shoes don't bend like socks.
I hate running.
I've never bothered with left or right foot placement of socks.

imposter2.0

pinno said:

Shoes don't bend like socks.
I hate running.
I've never bothered with left or right foot placement of socks.

Do your underpants have a front and a back - or have you never noticed?

david7m

imposter2.0 said:

pinno said:

Shoes don't bend like socks.
I hate running.
I've never bothered with left or right foot placement of socks.

Do your underpants have a front and a back - or have you never noticed?

Is this the right time to mention the vulgar C&A pants joke

pinno

imposter2.0 said:

pinno said:

Shoes don't bend like socks.
I hate running.
I've never bothered with left or right foot placement of socks.

Do your underpants have a front and a back - or have you never noticed?

I wear them back to front, inside out and I rotate every week.
Save's washing them

Stevo_666

david7m said:

imposter2.0 said:

pinno said:

Shoes don't bend like socks.
I hate running.
I've never bothered with left or right foot placement of socks.

Do your underpants have a front and a back - or have you never noticed?

Is this the right time to mention the vulgar C&A pants joke

Go on then

Longshot

orraloon said:

Owned by IFM Investors, an Australian investment management company owned by Aussie pension funds. And there is no statutory cap on toll rates. Deal put in place by, yes you guessed it, a Conjob government.

So what? No-one is forced to use it. In this particular case there are a number of alternative routes so it isn't as though it's the only way to avoid Birmingham.

mtb-idle

kingstongraham said:

There are 6,000 households in the UK that still have only a black and white TV licence.

does that mean they can only get the internet in black and white too?

shortfall

david7m said:

imposter2.0 said:

pinno said:

Shoes don't bend like socks.
I hate running.
I've never bothered with left or right foot placement of socks.

Do your underpants have a front and a back - or have you never noticed?

Is this the right time to mention the vulgar C&A pants joke

I prefer the Clement Freud underpants joke myself.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHx8y1rFjdk&list=PLVidZL77qQEeIUvVr0X0qyndadXqmYwFR&index=2&t=0s

orraloon

Do we have the return of the Post Deletion Fairy?

chris_bass

why, when quoting the tweet, did they star out the swearing but then displayed it in the tweet uncensored?

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-harry-ramsden-workers-incredible-17292429.amp

Ben6899

1. Working classes voting Conservative.

2. How on earth it took my mate 20mins to change a flat on Sunday!

Pross

ben6899 said:

1. Working classes voting Conservative.

I've been shocked by the amount of people in places up north that they've interviewed in recent days openly saying in front of their friends that they are going to vote Tory. Brexit seems to be the only real reason though.

That said, my dad has always voted Tory and was a printer all his working life. I've never fully understood why (he hates Unions as well).

porlyworly

Ask him...

fenix

Pross said:

dennisn said:

I'm intrigued by socks that are (supposedly and labeled so) for your right or left foot. This definitely seems an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Now, I do understand the motive behind it all. Make money for sock manufacturers. After all, athletes seem to have tons of disposable income and seem to believe anything a pretty ad in a magazine tells them. Wish I had thought of it. For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing. Let alone buy it.

My running socks are right and left foot, they provide a far better fit and less likelihood of getting blisters. I also have a pair of toe socks, they take some getting used to but again help reduce blisters from toes rubbing against each other especially on technical off-road runs.

I had L&R running socks too. I often had them on the wrong way. Didn't make any difference - I rarely get blisters anyway.

rjsterry

ben6899 said:

1. Working classes voting Conservative.

Really? You're intrigued that the world doesn't neatly divide into tribes?

Ben6899

rjsterry said:

ben6899 said:

1. Working classes voting Conservative.

Really? You're intrigued that the world doesn't neatly divide into tribes?

That's not what I said.

rjsterry

Fair enough. What were you getting at then?

Ben6899

rjsterry said:

Fair enough. What were you getting at then?

I quite innocently and genuinely don't understand why your average workking class person would prefer a Tory government.

People who rent a home, rent a car, live from one wage to the next to manage all of that (hopefully)... the Tories don't give a toss about those people.

rjsterry

ben6899 said:

rjsterry said:

Fair enough. What were you getting at then?

I quite innocently and genuinely don't understand why your average workking class person would prefer a Tory government.

People who rent a home, rent a car, live from one wage to the next to manage all of that (hopefully)... the Tories don't give a toss about those people.

If the last 3 years prove anything it is that the Tories are not a single homogeneous group. Also, a lot of people who identify as working class are also self-employed tradesmen, perhaps with socially conservative views. It's not difficult to see why Labour might seem just as irrelevant to them with its talk of unions and internationalism.

dennisn

imposter2.0 said:

dennisn said:

I'm intrigued by socks that are (supposedly and labeled so) for your right or left foot. This definitely seems an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Now, I do understand the motive behind it all. Make money for sock manufacturers. After all, athletes seem to have tons of disposable income and seem to believe anything a pretty ad in a magazine tells them. Wish I had thought of it. For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing. Let alone buy it.

But you're ok with shoes being designed for the left and right foot - or do you struggle with that concept as well?

I don't struggle with either concept. And it doesn't really intrigue me as to why some manufacturers make them. For the money. Why else?

chris_bass

dennisn said:

imposter2.0 said:

dennisn said:

I'm intrigued by socks that are (supposedly and labeled so) for your right or left foot. This definitely seems an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Now, I do understand the motive behind it all. Make money for sock manufacturers. After all, athletes seem to have tons of disposable income and seem to believe anything a pretty ad in a magazine tells them. Wish I had thought of it. For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing. Let alone buy it.

But you're ok with shoes being designed for the left and right foot - or do you struggle with that concept as well?

I don't struggle with either concept. And it doesn't really intrigue me as to why some manufacturers make them. For the money. Why else?

is that you don't believe socks could be designed for specific feet or that there is no benefit in doing so?

pinno

chris_bass said:

dennisn said:

imposter2.0 said:

dennisn said:

I'm intrigued by socks that are (supposedly and labeled so) for your right or left foot. This definitely seems an answer to a problem that doesn't exist. Now, I do understand the motive behind it all. Make money for sock manufacturers. After all, athletes seem to have tons of disposable income and seem to believe anything a pretty ad in a magazine tells them. Wish I had thought of it. For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing. Let alone buy it.

But you're ok with shoes being designed for the left and right foot - or do you struggle with that concept as well?

I don't struggle with either concept. And it doesn't really intrigue me as to why some manufacturers make them. For the money. Why else?

is that you don't believe socks could be designed for specific feet or that there is no benefit in doing so?

No, he was simply responding in the correct way to Imposter's rather curious, aggressive and somewhat condescending inquiry.
In fact, i'm still trying to work out why he wants to know if I know which way round my underwear is.

It's all a bit weird, if you ask me.

chris_bass

dennisn said:

For whatever reasons my mind just can't fathom why people would believe in this kind of thing

he seems to not believe something - i was asking what he didn't believe