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Calling a child Stephen condemns them and everyone who even has to correspond with them to waste time, ink, pixels and bytes on an unnecessary extra letter thousands and thousands of times throughout their entire lifetime.
Iain's, just admit that the 2nd "I" serves no purpose whatsoever.
posts about ironing from people who haven't understood the irony implicit in the original post
Yeah... I realised a minute after posting that I'd misread and it wasn't as funny as I thought. But couldn't be bothered editing.
Story of my life
And bottled water itself.
+100. Especially with companies espousing environmental sainthood, selling bottles of water from the other end of the country in open refrigerators.
Calling a child Stephen condemns them and everyone who even has to correspond with them to waste time, ink, pixels and bytes on an unnecessary extra letter thousands and thousands of times throughout their entire lifetime.
See also, pop star Anne Marie (generic name) calling her newborn son Forever Sugar (moronic name). Condemning him to have to answer to "I'm sorry can you repeat that please, the line is bad it just sounded like random words!" Completely unnecessary and inefficient.
On the plus side, at least the naming process can be optimized by simply using a passphrase generator.
Return to Office mandates.
The world did not stop when a good few of us started working from home.
Commercial Radio.
Entitlement culture.
Laptop power supplies that aren't USB-C.
The unique way the BBC is funded.
Just fund it out of normal tax already and dissolve the hateful debt collection agency.
One of life’s few steps forward is at our local BP garage. For i think £3 it will pump screen wash down a narrow hose for 5 minutes. Enough to refill the cars bottle and top up a container you take with you.
Why not just enough to fill the bottle in 30 seconds, for a quid? They've so nearly solved the problem, but completely ruined it.
open refrigerators.
That deserves a mention on its own.
When I'm king of the world, every product designer is going to be forced to use their own product for 6 months before the design is approved for public use.
You've got my vote. I've been saying this for years.
Monarchs are unnecessary
Voting for them even more so 🙂
Double barreled names
I can't remember who it was who pointed out how unnecessary it is to be called 'Stephen' when theres the perfectly sufficient 'Steven' available. Calling a child Stephen condemns them and everyone who even has to correspond with them to waste time, ink, pixels and bytes on an unnecessary extra letter thousands and thousands of times throughout their entire lifetime.
And all the Stevens have been cursed by all the Stephens to then have to explain repeatedly that their name isn't spelled with a 'ph' , which is probably more bother.
On behalf of all the Stephens, wind your necks in!
Other than food, water and shelter pretty much everything.
I can't remember who it was who pointed out how unnecessary it is to be called 'Stephen' when theres the perfectly sufficient 'Steven' available. Calling a child Stephen condemns them and everyone who even has to correspond with them to waste time, ink, pixels and bytes on an unnecessary extra letter thousands and thousands of times throughout their entire lifetime.
Talk about stuff being unnecessary, here's an unnecessary paragraph.
I have a story of humiliation, too long to describe to describe here, involving the name Stev/phen and Ralph McTell, of Streets of London fame. Thirty five years later and I'm still standing in that theatre, clutching a record and bright red in embarrassment.
Other than food, water and shelter pretty much everything.
But what about self-actualization ????????? 🙂
https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
The Google assistant whole-screen overlay on my mobile popping up when I long-held my finger on the bottom of the screen (to switch between open apps).
Needing to search the internet to find the multiple settings to turn it off.
95% of Redbull Rampage commentary.
www.amazon.co.uk/Dispenser-Sliding-Cutter-Aluminium-Mounted/dp/B0CD5KJQ1S/
Having to remove the https from amazon links to stop them appearing as Kindle links should be unnecessary.
But what about self-actualization ?????????
Makes you go blind.
I’m sure there are cheaper ways of buying screen wash.
Fairy Liquid?
Anyway - Litter. You brought it here, take the bloody stuff home.
Adverts. ALL ADVERTS really.
But particularly adverts on Sky for the programme you’re watching. Like Sky portrait artist of the year advertising Sky portrait artist of the year in the middle of Sky Portrait artist of the year. For example.
Automatic windscreen wipers. I can actually drive so I’m sure I can control my own bloody wipers. Why, just why are they necessary.
But what aboutself-actualization ?????????
What about WiFi?
Automatic windscreen wipers. I can actually drive so I’m sure I can control my own bloody wipers. Why, just why are they necessary.
Try driving a car without them and you will soon realise they are indeed a very, very useful thing to have!
Sorry should have said rain sensitive automatic wipers 🙄
First aid kit in a car. If you’ve had a crash big enough to cause blood loss, it’s an ambulance job. A couple of plasters and a sling ain’t going to cut it.
Used mine recently.
Excited a roundabout and there was a guy stumbling around the verge with his Vespa buried in a bush.
Massive cut to his head bleeding like crazy... I bandaged and applied pressure to it.
Had to wait 20 minutes for an ambulance.
There's more in a first aid box than just plasters. Maybe worth doing a first aid course.
Automatic windscreen wipers.
I'd agree most wholeheartedly if you said automatic full beam (the most unnecessary invention - actually probably more the most BADLY implemented invention! since LED headlights)... but my new car hasn't got auto wipers and I find it a little bit annoying! It just worked better on my last car, the wiper wiping when the window needed to be wiped and stopping, rather than me have to start and stop it all the time. Doesn't seem to have an intermittent wiper setting either... maybe something's broken 🤔
On the teeth thing, having had a couple of very bad tooth infections before - I sympathise. It's the worst pain I have ever felt, I remember being in an almost transcendent state one night at 3am from how frankly comical the pain was! I was crying and resorting to pulling my hair to try and distract myself haha. Sounds dramatic but everything is worse at night.
I think that pain is maybe by design. I don't wanna scare you but if left untreated for a long time tooth infections can get very bad, very quickly. It's not an easy blood barrier to cross, but once it does it's very close to the brain and Sepsis can set in quite fast. It also can eat away your jawbone which is pretty grim to think about, as well as swelling your jaw to the point where breathing is affected if it's reeaaaallly bad.
In saying that: I do wonder why we need to have soft pulpy stuff inside teeth that can get infected in the first place, let alone nerves. Why can't they just be impermeable enamel?! I have bridges now where the aforementioned two infected teeth once were, and it doesn't really feel any different to normal.
Sugar in EVERYTHING!
can’t we just add artificial sweeteners to soups, baked beans and chocolate?
we already have ‘diet’ cola, so why can’t we replace the sugars in bread?
Thanks to this thread a quick chat with me ol GPT buddy, found that my car does have auto-wipers.. you just have to press the end of the stalk to switch them on every time. Weird, but useful 🙂
Sugar in EVERYTHING!
can’t we just add artificial sweeteners to soups, baked beans and chocolate?
we already have ‘diet’ cola, so why can’t we replace the sugars in bread?
I want quite the opposite, artificial sweetners are more damaging than sugar.
There's more in a first aid box than just plasters. Maybe worth doing a first aid course
Yes, I have to be first aid trained to do my job.
was quite amused on the last renewal, when the morbidly obese bloke with dimples in his knuckles doing the training suggested that I was too fat for the crappy tiny first aid kit sling.
Would be better off using my tee shirt.
Sugar in EVERYTHING!
can’t we just add artificial sweeteners to soups, baked beans and chocolate?
We can't because many people believe nonsense like the comment two posts down from yours. That or "it doesn't taste the same" - well, no it doesn't, remember the "Coke Classic" debacle? - but it's very similar and you'll acclimatise after a week or two. Accidentally drinking full sugar Coke again is a shock to the system!
I'd prefer that it was the default with heavily sugared drinks as an option, rather than the other way around as it is now. Go into a small shop like a petrol station and it's often hard to find sugar-free drinks beyond Coke/Pepsi and bottled water, and I'm ****ed if I'm paying double the price of petrol for something which has literally fallen out of the sky.
The tide is turning though I think. Supermarkets have a wider selection (of course) and a lot of mainstream products are offering "low sugar" variants.
When I'm king of the world, every product designer is going to be forced to use their own product for 6 months before the design is approved for public use.
Couldn’t agree more! That applies even more to the designers of car interiors and interfaces, plus they should also have to do the same to competitors, that way perhaps they might realise that having every control as a touch sensitive area on a flat panel screen, when it comes to driving and selecting important functions like air conditioning, de-misting and other important functions, is absolutely bloody stupid and dangerous, which is why it’s illegal to use a handheld touchscreen device in a moving car!
And breath…
That’s a particular hobby horse of mine, which I developed when driving a great many different makes and models of cars, as touchscreen technology was starting to make its way into car designs. That was getting on for eight/ten years ago. It hasn’t gotten any better. 🤬
Calling a child Stephen condemns them and everyone who even has to correspond with them to waste time, ink, pixels and bytes on an unnecessary extra letter thousands and thousands of times throughout their entire lifetime.
Iain's, just admit that the 2nd "I" serves no purpose whatsoever.
My wife's middle name is Liisa, apparently Finish in origin, but she's literally had the passport office send her stuff back and telling her she's spelt her name wrong...
Actually, there's one for the unnecessary list, middle names. Didn't bother with them for our kids.
when it comes to driving and selecting important functions like air conditioning, de-misting and other important functions, is absolutely bloody stupid and dangerous
I think NCAP has realised. Cars will only get a 5 star safety rating if things like wipers and hazards have a physical 'thing' to operate them.
Enjoyed this thread... and it's given me an actual idea. All that expensive "opaque fridge door" does is turn a light on inside without having to open it. That could be a motion sensor rather than a knock sensor in a retail fridge or freezer. Now put doors and auto on lights on all the fridges in supermarkets. Add auto lights to the freezers while you're at it. Someone work out how much energy that could save...
I think NCAP has realised.
Very glad that's happening. I'd go further and make physical controls for anything you need to be able to operate on the move obligatory.
Prepare for rants from Musk. But sod him and his cutting corners to increase profits... and then selling the compromises as features.
Actually, there's one for the unnecessary list, middle names. Didn't bother with them for our kids.
Except when your son with no middle name gets teased relentlessly because his mates think his middle name is so awful that he won't admit he has one.
Also, middle names are useful when dishing out a proper telling off...
When I'm king of the world, every product designer is going to be forced to use their own product for 6 months before the design is approved for public use.
I'm willing to bet the designers already know it's shit. The people who need to be forced to use it are the managers who want costs cut.
Re. the sugar v. sweetener debate above, I would suggest it's desirable to cut both down to a minimum.
Wet wipes.
Slimming products.
Ready chopped food in plastic.
Actually, there's one for the unnecessary list, middle names. Didn't bother with them for our kids.
Coincidentally, I was thinking about this the other day. I have a middle name, the only time it's ever been used is a) when you're really in trouble with your parents, b) having a middle initial to enter into arcade game high score tables and c) filling in forms that ask you for it. I don't recognise it as my name, I use it so infrequently that when I was younger I had to pause to remember how it was spelt. I've idly thought about officially changing my name just to drop it completely.
The Small doesn't have a middle name, he has a double-barrelled first name for reasons I cannot fathom. That's neither one nor the other. 🤷♂️
I suppose with more letters to work with it gives kids more options to choose their own preferred form of address. I can think of at least two friends at least who exclusively go by their middle name. For one of them it's not common knowledge that it is his middle name and very few people outside of family or officialdom know what his first name really is (technically it's not even his 'middle' name as he has three forenames).
The detractors against artificial sweeteners always argued that putting them in soft drinks would merely encourage people to seek out sugars elsewhere.
but when I become president of the universe, I WILL ban sugars (and salt) from all foods.
that way, my subjects (supplicants?), will have to seek out fruit as a way to sate their cravings for sugar.