Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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I always assumed this sort of thing was more about considering other users at other stations, but I could be completely wrong.
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Not really much of an issue coming from North Greenwich at 11pm.
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Think yourself lucky, the last gig my daughter went to there the Tube service was cancelled without notice and there were so many Ubers turning up she couldn't find the one she booked so had to book another as it then left without her. Cost her well over £100 to get back to Gants Hill (she did get the original Uber refunded in the end though).
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I think I'd find that somewhat more than trivially annoying.
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Exactly. The crowding was being held above ground. It was working.
Sinking a couple of extra access shafts with lifts and escalators for a few short periods of overcrowding seems a bit excessive.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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The whole point of the station being built was to get people in and out of the Millennium Dome.
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No, that's not the whole point of the station. There are 11,000 people living on the Greenwich peninsula and it's a significant transport interchange for other SE London. Having to wait 10 minutes to get to the platform when 20,000 arrive all at once is not a fault.
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Every major event I've been to has been the same, so I assumed it was planned. Perhaps for the reasons rjsterry says
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I agree, 10 minutes wouldn't have been even trivially annoying.
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Standard Araldite. What's the f'king point? Mistakenly bought this instead of my usual Rapid version. 8 hours to set!!! WTF!? I was holding the two bits expecting a rapid bond in a few minutes. Now all I have is a gooey mess.
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Is the quick-set stuff compromised in its performance in any way? Haven't used the stuff in years, but it's great for certain things.
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Presumably it is more brittle. if it cures more quickly, there is more curing going on in total. Unless it's a completely different cross linking reaction, which I don't think it is
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That was my hunch (not quite up to Feynman's level of hunch, I realise).
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I use JB weld epoxy. Just looked- Original (slow cure 24H) has a tensile strength of 5020psi. Quick cure 3127psi. I'll stick (pun intended) to Original.
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And there's the answer, in a repaired nutshell.
Well, I do also wonder if the slow-cure stuff is also less prone to losing tensile strength and becoming more brittle over time.
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Hmmm 🤔
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I suspect the fast cure stuff just has more cross linking sites, meaning it hardens faster because the peak reaction rate is higher. But ultimately it gets very hard. Whereas the slow cure stuff ends up with fewer cross links overall, and is thus more flexible.
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I’ve always found when I want something really hard, there’s no way I want it flexible.😉
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Well you don't want to get stuck I suppose.
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I’m about a sympathetic a driver as you can be for cyclists for obvious reasons.
The amount of parents who blindly cycle ahead of their cycling under 7s on the road is mad.
I’m all for encouraging cycling and it’s by far the best way to get around but honestly these kids are *all over* the place and just do not have the right skills to be on the road without very close supervision.
Clearly there needs to be infrastructure to allow this to be able to happen, but in the meantime, oof.
Lethal.
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Agreed. I always used to ride behind and further out from the kids. I once had a driver hit my arm with his mirror as we were riding down a narrow residential street with traffic calming and signs saying "home zone, priority to pedestrians and cyclists" I caught him at the give way line about 50 yards away and had to stop myself when he gave me attitude as I was about to completely lose my shit in front of the kids.
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Re slow setting epoxy, I had read slow setting is more flexible. I need to glue some bamboo together for a bike frame, slow setting is better as it flexes with the bamboo.
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Making your kids ride on the front and drafting them then? Wheelsucker!
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...and we go full circle back to Rick. 😉
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Araldite has set firm. At last. Repair repaired. Job jobbed. Coffee drip tray now back in action on my Krups Virtuoso.
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Why didn't you use super glue?
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I didn't have an Super glue that hadn't dried out. Had a new pack of Araldite in the drawer of stuff in the kitchen. I usually buy the Rapid Metal stuff and that pretty much repairs everything.
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My local pharmacy. They are excellent but so busy it's descending into mild chaos. Prescriptions are always late and now missing. Having to wait for 30+ minutes for something that should have been ready last Thursday!!
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