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Many things mentioned should rightly have been "fixed" by now, but I'm also reading things mentioned that are just things the poster doesn't like or disagrees with.
Worn out spirit level bubbles?
1) Amazon movies/ tv series that lack subtitles.
2) Food packaged in:
a) tin cans: too blimmin lethal.
b) glass jars: weigh too much to transport cheaply and there’s a global shortage of glass, apparently.
3) Pencils/ pens and their refills that have a tubular shape. Too easy to trip over. Easier to hold if they had a triangular shape.
4) Cricket/ rounders fielders not wearing gloves.
They should take a leaf out of the baseball/ softball world and encourage the use of fielders wearing gloves.
It would inspire more confidence when learning the sport.
Though, in all the above sports, it’s about time that they reconsider what the physical characteristics of the ball should be.
You want something that’s got more weight than a tennis ball, but something less lethal than a rounders/ baseball or cricket ball.
Something that bounced in an unpredictable manner after the batter hit it would certainly add a dash of excitement to the proceedings.
5) ‘Dance’ radio stations that dont play ‘Goa Trance’ or some of the more interesting bands like Fluke, Underworld, Orbital, Chris & Cosey, etc.
So far:
Tories - agreed
Robert Murdoch - agreed
Putin - agreed
Add new f****** axle standards to the list please.
My underpants.
Sugar beet farmers using nicotine pesticides.
We don’t need sugar, we need hemp!!!
Dogs pooping randomly. Here, there, everywhere.
Afaik, in New York, they have fenced-off areas in which dog owners can let their pooches run around and poop.
That keeps the rest of the city poop-free.
a) Loose, (unsealed) bearings in wheels.
Some people manage to regrease their own bearings, but they’re in a tiny minority of the population.
A more realistic scenario is someone taking their bike to the lbs because the bearings are grinding against the hub surface. By then it’s too late and the entire wheel gets tossed for recycling. An environmental snafu that shimano and sram need to address.
For most people, the convenience of fit-and-forget components on bikes should be part of the British standards, and loose bearings in wheels should be reserved for pro riders.
b) square-taper bottom brackets.
While we can appreiate the fit-and-forget durability of shimanos sealed bottom brackets, why persist with the square taper?
There’s precious few guarantees in life, but you can be pretty certain of the drive-side crank falling off a a square-taper bottom bracket.
Shimanos octalink system is a far more secure means to attach cranks to the bottom bracket and probably costs the same for shimano to manufacture.
So why do they persist in manufacturing square-taper bottom brackets?
It just ruins the overall cycling experience when someone’s crank falls off or they belatedly discover that they need to replace their wheels because some grit penetrated their hubs.
As a consumer rights/ sale of goods issue, I don’t think that loose bearings and square- taper bottom brackets are truly fit for purpose.
Estate agents
Recruitment consultants
Travel agents
All of these inexplicably hang-on, despite being obsolete
Also:
Shipping rubbish overseas to be recycled
Grado headphones?
Never owned a pair. Apparently they offer a fantastic listening experience. Until they break!
Excluding North Korea and Iran, Grado have about seven billion potential customers.
Why they would need to design in product obsolescence by making their headphones so flimsy is beyond my meagre comprehension.
Cars (SUV’s) being leased at very low interest rates.
If someone can offer such preferential interest rates, why not extend it to white goods (fridges, washing machines), and just lease them?
Then the manufacturers of the white goods are obliged to make them more reliable.
Religion
A more realistic scenario is someone taking their bike to the lbs because the bearings are grinding against the hub surface. By then it’s too late and the entire wheel gets tossed for recycling. An environmental snafu that shimano and sram need to address.
Cones can easily be replaced, the issue is the lack of cups and always has been.
There’s precious few guarantees in life, but you can be pretty certain of the drive-side crank falling off a a square-taper bottom bracket.
Maybe if you're running FSA Powerpro's but nobody has bought them in 20 years.
the issue is the lack of cups and always has been.
In the 80's you could buy cups. I replaced a few in suntour and other hubs.
Have not seen any cups for sale for 25 years.
EDIT - SJS have Cmpag and Sturmey archer ones.
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/hub-spares/campagnolo-rear-hub-ball-cup-insert-fits-campagnolo-screwon-hubs-cda-chorus-athena-tipo/
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/hub-spares/sturmey-archer-sun-pinion-cup-hsa481/
Amazon.
Virtue signalling
Eton
In the 80’s you could buy cups.
Wee bit before my time 😉
Virtue signalling
Yep can start with poppy wearing, sitting in front of a union jack and pictures of the queen.
Human beans.
Wee bit before my time
I'm just gonna add aging to the list.
Steve Wright in the afternoon
Spam
Pritti Patel
Capitalism.
Michael Masi
Northwind:
Highrollers
Highlight of the thread so far. Like a minion but worse in every way.
The ability to sack staff with immediate effect, and replace them with cheaper contract labour.
You reap what you sow...
John Major's Traffic Cones Hotline
Human beans.
Actually Roald Dahl was quite good.
A head of state based on who their mum / dad was.
1. Fluorescent lights – Take ages to come on, always on the blink, bulbs a pain to dispose of/break easily, noisy.
I still buy CF lights over LED as they're much brighter and seem to last longer eg hallway and landing lights where I just want one bright bulb (125W old school equivalent).
Cones Hotline
Good god, I thought I'd dreamt that! It was actually a thing wasn't it. Never mind 2022. it had no place in the mid-nineties when I was travelling up and down the motorways wide-eyed after clubbing,
Judgmental people who like the sound of their own voice too much or, more accurately, the tippy tap sound of their keyboard too much.
Collars as a means to control dogs
Cheap shit that doesn't do what is supposedly designed to do
Steve Wright in the afternoon
Very much this.
Cheap shit that doesn’t do what is supposedly designed to do
Trouble is there's lots of stuff (especially for MTB) that isn't cheap but piss takingly shit quality!
Thread resurrections
Single use plastic razors- the actual shaving component is miniscule compared to the rest of the assembly. Seems old Gramps had it right back in the day with DE razor blades.
1. Stuff I don’t like.
2. Stuff I won’t like tomorrow but can’t be arsed to do anything about today.
3. Stuff people I don’t like like.
4. Stuff
jonny - gramps had it right with a cut throat razor; shave with it, carry it for self defence, use it to thinly slice tuna for sashimi and vegetables.
Leather strop for sharpening and doubling up as belt.
The old boys had it right decades ago!
Prolific noddy know it all posters.
AirBnB / bunkbarn / cottage / BnB owners who take your booking then weeks later cancel it because they've got friends visiting or a larger more profitable party staying.
By which time you can't find alternative accommodation. Bastards!!
40" televisions.
2021 calendars
(I bet someone did that already)
Talking into mobiles like you are on Startrek.
I shout at them 'Dermott Dermott, i made into the judges house'
They look at me like im the nutjob
Being offended by people who choose to do things differently to you?
Responding to a thread with knee-jerk reaction to the last post.
Talking shite on the internet.
Anything and everything.
Ah see it's covered already:
4. Stuff
The insanity that still seems to be going on in NI