Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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My office is on a quiet street between two main roads in the City. It's increasingly used by people on rat runs trying to shave a few minutes.
A lorry is unloading some stuff and is blocking the road. There's a guy absolutely losing his shit about it because he can't get by. Has been leaning on the horn for the past 20 minutes. Doing my head in.
Edit: someone else is joining in with their horn.
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Go and tell him he should have gone around the proper route. Is it some City boy in a highly unsuitable for city driving sports car? If so I'd just go out there, point and laugh.
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I've just had the total opposite. Trying to access my office backdoor and the road was blocked.
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The term "Air Fryer". Yes they're great and efficient but the 1 thing they don't do is Fry. They're just diddy ovens.
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That’s always been my take. Would it normally go in the oven/grill? Yes, crack on. No, use the proper appliance.
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 -
Last week, I did an unplanned route on a hire e-bike at Longleat Center Parcs and did approx 39 miles with 3500 feet climbing in just over 3 hours, turning assistance off on the flat/downhill and only using eco mode on inclines (surprisingly, including the steep bit on Kingsettle Hill near King Alfred's Tower). Started to feel a bit tired when climbing Heavens Gate to get back to villa, but absolutely fine the next day.
Now back home and the prospect of doing a ride of approx 30 miles with 2000 feet on my road bike feels ridiculously intimidating and might well take near 3 hours and leave me pretty fatigued.
For a bit of context, this is essentially the same route from two years ago, before long covid https://www.strava.com/activities/7153984745
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When I'm waiting to cross a road and a single car is coming. Instead of just driving by, many will slow down and allow me cross the street in front of them. The problem with this is it takes much longer for a car to slow down than just drive by. The icing on the cake is that I'm then meant to thank them for delaying me as I cross the road.
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Could you hide behind something until the crossing is clear, or pretend to be doing up your shoe laces?
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Actually, if you pretended to do up your shoe laces that would give you an aerodynamic sprint advantage.
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I find it annoying when I'm on a run and looking forward to a brief rest while I wait for a car and they call me across (especially when I'm on a club run and running harder than I'd like to be!).
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Trying to apply Newtons laws of motion to gain an aerodynamic advantage when crossing the road. The wind can be quite variable, gusts from traffic, obstacles, clothing wind resistance, shoe type...
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Some of our meeting rooms at work are named after famous people and one of them is called 'Lovelace' after the mathematician Ada lovelock who is in that pic. Some people still haven't twigged why it's referred to as the Linda room.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
That's because you are getting old.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Nosing around the job market and seeing Technical Director roles that are tempting but almost without fail the first thing the employer asks about is work winning and business development. It used to be that a Technical Director was exactly what the name suggests and you led the technical side of things whilst there were other roles bringing in the work.
The advertised role normally says something along the lines of ‘due to a high workload we are looking for a new Technical Director to oversee delivery of projects’ but then work winning is listed above anything technical in the description of the role and is generally one of the first things you get asked about if you call to discuss the job. As someone who hates that side of the job it’s pretty depressing how strong technical competence is no longer a skill for the most senior roles.
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Is the poster designed to encourage more women into maths? Whatever Katherine Johnson did for the maths behind space exploration, it was surely less than Newton did.
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It’s not a definitive list tbf.
On the “heroes” board in my daughter’s class it’s the queen, Taylor swift, Marcus rashford and Florence Nightingale. That’s it
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Given you're talking about KS1, I can just about understand Rashford, but Taylor Swift? Do the kids need to admire her business skills at that age?
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Good film that, clever film title too.
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What do you mean, 'getting'?
Although I see you got the joke 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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Had to Google it. Could remember the name but not where I'd heard it. Not surprised anyone under 40 is looking a bit blank.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Gotcha. She admires her business acumen and money making ability.
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Think it's more of a broad selection rather than a top ten. Any list will have people disagreeing with who's in and who's not (and some idiot complaining about accusing the authors of being woke). They all built on the ideas of those who came before them.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I've read the last three pages thoroughly.
And I don't understand any of it.
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TBB is annoyed Newton was left off a poster of mathematicians. It's fairly obviously not an exhaustive list nor claims to be a top ten. Looks like it's a broad selection to provide inspiration to school children in a cosmopolitan city. One was Ada Lovelace, and Stevo had a flashback to early 70s porn.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Still silly to not include Newton (and Euler) especially if the broad selection is going to include someone who simply calculated Newtonian mechanics.
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Think it's a bit more than 'simply calculating Newtonian mechanics'. And I think you are misunderstanding the aim of the poster.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Look if we're not allowed to misunderstand posters this place will get even quieter
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