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Decrypting cycle clothing sizing; how can I be 3XL in one jersey and L in another?
A lot to be said for Fat Lad at the Back clothing - I have a 42" chest, I'll need a size 42 jersey.
Getting up in the morning and finding that your wife turned off the phone charger socket last night after you had plugged your phone in to charge overnight....🤬
A lot to be said for Fat Lad at the Back clothing...
...and people coming up with a perfectly sensible solution to something that's made me disproportionately cross for years! 🙂
It may have been covered above and it's certainly been hinted at...
The replacement of actual news reporting with regurgitation of opinions from the man in the street and publishing them verbatim as if they are incontrovertible fact and proper research. Closely related to this is ascribing the same editorial weight to the the opinion of an angry gammon with an uninsured 1985 V8 Range Rover to that of, say, an actual climate scientist.
People who get insanely ranty about road improvement schemes without actually reading the plans and resent anything that might possibly make the lives of those on more active and sustainable transport modes just a little better. Pointing out to them that they have not in fact read the plans correctly is met with pure unadulterated denial. Likely to be the same demographic found complaining about how dangerous the roads are round here while pointing out the location of speed cameras and how awful it is they have been "taxed" and anyway the speed limit sign is so hard to read ...
Thinking that there is a simple (usually binary) lifestyle consequence free solution to the problems of the world and that any problem we don't presently have a solution to is just a question of "science" or "industry" pulling its finger out and finding the "answer".
@garage-dweller I would say your anger is entirely legitimate rather than being disproportionate.
Especially the first, which gets worse. News reports are now including sections which start with ‘twitter user @someopinionatedtwit had says…’
Honestly, if I gave a flying turd what random people on twitter think, I’d look at twitter.
My family.
[Pedant content warning] In this context Cougar is describing “a” thing. here it’s a group of objects, but in the context of the sentence structure there’s no difference to the thing being many things or a thing, grammatically it’s still just “a thing” so “is” is correct. [/Pedant content warning]
It's a further point about the plurality of bottles, ie, "And there is" (four bottles). Therefore if the previous "there's" should be "there are", "And there is" should be "And there are"
Anyways, notwithstanding I've just done it, people like us writing stuff like this on forums make me disproportionately cross!
My lesson for today is to try much harder to focus on the message. I understood exactly what Cougar wrote so no need for me to nitpick about grammar, spoken or written. My wife and daughter would at least welcome the lack of chuntering from me 🙂 And I might get to become a slightly more relaxed and nicer person. Win Win!
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In all honesty, I appreciate learning things.
People saying "drawring" instead of "drawing"
Drives me nuts. There is no "r" in the middle of the word.
Companies that still insist on using phone calls as a method of doing business in 2022. Estate agents I'm looking at you, but it's mainly scumbag marketing companies and so you can have your phone on silent knowing that anyone who insists on calling repeatedly is not to be trusted.
See a business premises on an estate agents website. Click the 'request more information' button. Fill out form to answer the simple question 'is parking available? Yes/No?'. Give email address, phone number is 'required' of course.
Then receive over a week counting of missed calls from the estate agents. Plus multiple emails saying 'we tried to call'. Reply to email saying 'just answer the ****ing question here: Is parking available? Yes/No? I don't want to chat on the phone! It's not 1984!
What is this all about? Do they only get paid for being on the phone or something/ It's such an outdated and inefficient method of doing business these days. Fair enough for personal issues, chatting to relatives etc. But why should one take time out from what one's doing, stop the car, climb down off some ladders etc in order to strain to hear what's being said down a bad line with no method of referring back to the conversation.
Grrrr....
Companies that still insist on using phone calls as a method of doing business in 2022. Estate agents I’m looking at you
Companies that still insist on stuffing bits of paper in envelopes as a method of doing business in 2022. You can email me, get a near instant response, and we both have a full audit trail; or you can post it, spend money, waste trees and have a three-day turnaround. It's utterly braindead. They're going to shit themselves when they hear about these new-fangled fax machines.
Most recently, I set up a new direct debit for car insurance and they got confused and put my account details but my partner's name. I rang them to correct it. Just two short hours and 12 minutes later it was answered, I spoke to a lovely woman who told me that she couldn't put my name on the mandate (because, what, I might be fraudulently paying for something from my own account? 🤷♂️) and that I'd have to complete a new one. Fine, whatever, email it over. "Oh, we don't have the facility to do that, we'll post it out." Really? OK, give me a return email, I'll scan it and send it. No, it has to be returned by post. WTF? What should be a 30-second job took days and two and a half hours of my life.
Companies that still insist on using phone calls as a method of doing business in 2022.
On the flip side companies that only do communication through social media / email web chat and steadfastly refuse to have a phone number and someone who is not utterly clueless on the end of it. It is a regulatory requirement in my job to offer email, post and phone and to deal with all of those competently and in a timely manner.
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Huh, really. So it is me then. I remember airing this view on another forum regarding conducting business over the phone and got the same response. Fair enough, it's me. Stopping everything you're doing, turning off your music, then waiting on hold for forty-five minutes listening to 8kbps Vivaldi, to then strain to make out over VOIP to some distant Indian call-centre, and then having no idea what, if anything was the answer to your question because you're not constantly sat at a desk with a pen and paper to hand Is better than coming home to an email answering your question.
using the phone to do business isn't the problem, it's misusing it.
Conversely, my wife and daughter's refusal to use the phone when it's the right tool for the job.
Exhibit 1; They know I leave work around 6, half past. I'll frequently get a text about that time - can you get some milk / bread / whatever on the way in. I arrive home, switch off car, pick up phone and then find a text. If I've seen it I'll text back - OK. If they haven't had an answer, I haven't seen it. So don't act all ****ty when I haven't get the bread (inevitably it's me that has to go out again anyway!!)
Exhibit 2: My daughter has a complex relationship with some of her friends, one in particular. Like all teenage girls, there's times when they're just shitty to each other. She works Friday evenings, and often changes after work to meet her friends in town. Yet they organise by text or whatsapp, with her getting a series or slightly ambiguous messages, often with big gaps between.
eg: where are we meeting
Assembly Rooms. We're already there.
OK
But we'll be moving soon.
OK, when?
(big gap)
Don't know
OK so should I come there?
Don't know
....just FFS pick up the phone and sort it out!!!!
So it is me then.
Well, no, I despise phones at the best of times, let alone in that sort of environment. "Your call is important to us..." well, you could consider employing sufficient staff to answer the bastard, then.
But, I don't think that's a disproportionate reaction.
Cleaning companies who make all manner of squirty, foamy cleaning solutions for car and home in a trigger spray bottle.
That then fails approx 60% through the contents of said bottle. I know its more single use plastic, but make it man enough and i will re use it on the next foamy spray.. Kills all germs dead
And dont get me started on that grammatical error. Its hardly going to kill it back to life.
I know some chemicals are corrosive amd seals fail but so quickly, really.
Come on chaps, sort it out.
using the phone to do business isn’t the problem, it’s misusing it.
Indeed.
If I meet a mate down the nuclear sub, I'll generally ring them if I can't see where they are. I don't stand at the bar composing an email to ask if they are there yet.
That then fails approx 60% through the contents of said bottle.
... then the cheeky bastards have the nerve to sell refills.
Plastic knives and forks that lack the armour piercing power to get through a gravy saturated chip without shattering into a million tiny choking hazards
Matt Bellamy out of Muse.
Or more specifically, Matt Bellamy's overly audible inward breath.
Just do it in your own time yeah?
Otherwise ok 👍
Morning,
Have we done packaging that isn't recyclable or reusable in anyway ;-(
JeZ
Protesters blocking roads. Go and do it at the houses of parliament instead.
They can't any more. The government changed the law so that they could get rid of Steve Bray.
People that pronounce "thirty" as "thErty"
You wouldn't pronounce "third" as "therd"
No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
People that pronounce “thirty” as “thErty”
You wouldn’t pronounce “third” as “therd”
I read them as exactly the same.
Recaps on tv shows.
America I'm looking at you!
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Speaking of flying turds :-
Bagged up dog poo hurled to an inaccessible place in the hedgerow.
FFS just drop it neatly at the side of the path so that the dog shit fairy can take it away (I think my best "score" was well over 10 bags in one walk, on a path where clearly no other Dog Poo Fairy had passed for a week or two).
The beauty of the countryside can be the sole nice thing in some people's day, it's just so egregiously thoughtless to leave these decaying monstrosities in everyone's sight but nobody's reach.
Also, people who don't bother to read the last 12 pages of the thread to find that their gripe was covered in detail 5 pages ago...;)
"We're experiencing an unexpectedly high volume of calls at the moment".
No you're not, and if you are you have been for 4 years. Either way, hire some more staff. This is not difficult.
A current gripe is a chain of e-mails from a well known running shoe manufacturer saying that I'd got something in my basket and giving me a discount code to incentivise me to buy the shoes. Sadly said code doesn't work with the shoes in the basket...
You wouldn’t pronounce “third” as “therd”
How else would you pronounce it? Third sounds like herd/heard 🤔
How else would you pronounce it? Third sounds like herd/heard
Not in Ireland
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So the poster doesn’t like Irish accents or just Irish people saying third?
This is the only way to tell the time
you’ll probably hate me for this similar thing.
at 12:34 oclock If i notice i traditionaly exclaim “its 1 2 3 4 oclock”
How about 11:11 is "ones"?
My new USB-C to HDMI converter. It works when first plugged in but if the Mac goes to sleep after waking it up the TV reports no signal but the mouse behaves like there are two screens. At this point restarting the Mac doesn't make any difference.
The rewind function on streaming apps on sky, Xbox, etc. (I’m looking at you Prime) that won’t let you rewind at anything less than what feels like 100x speed. Have to tap the button for a fraction of a second then immediately hit play and it still goes back a good minute or so. FFS 🤦♂️
I can’t be the only one am I? If anyone has a suggestion for this I’d be more than happy to admit user error!
I'd have to check, but I think on the Xbox at least, different buttons might do different things? It's been a while since I used Prime, I'll have a look later.
Think Netflix lets you skip back 10 seconds which is great.
Things that take normal batteries, such as TV remotes. Why not just make them rechargeable?
Would save me rummaging around in the 'draw of chaos' looking for a couple of AAA batteries, failing, then having to use the almost invisible buttons on the TV to change AV input. Looking at you LG.
I'm aware you can buy separate rechargeable batteries but it's just one more unnecessary thing.
Also
Any packaging I need tools to open.
Any household electronics I need a manual to operate.
That's a failure in design as far as I'm concerned.
I had a Denon hifi which I had to keep the manual next to it to set the clock, every time the power went off for a split second. If left it would flash annoyingly forever.
A. Fit a capacitor to preserve the setting you tight bastards
B. Wtf does a hifi need a clock for?
C. Why make it flash?
D. Why make it so hard to set the clock?
Things that take normal batteries, such as TV remotes. Why not just make them rechargeable?
Why not just buy rechargeable batteries?
Would save me rummaging around in the ‘draw of chaos’
And swerving back on topic,
IT'S A ****ING DRAWER! WHY IS THIS SUCH A DIFFICULT WORD?! AAAARRRGHGHGTHGH!!11!ELEVEN!!
A. Fit a capacitor to preserve the setting you tight bastards
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">B. Wtf does a hifi need a clock for</span>
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">C. Why make it flash</span>
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">D. Why make it so hard to set the clock</span>
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Surely this is a job for a tidy strip of black insulation tape?</span>
The rewind function on streaming apps on sky, Xbox, etc. (I’m looking at you Prime) that won’t let you rewind at anything less than what feels like 100x speed.
This used to drive me mad on the AppleTV until I realised I could ask Siri nicely for a precise rewind 😀
What drive me insane is Workday, this is a multi billion dollar company that sells software that looks (and works) like it was written by a drunk intern back in the 90s.
Shitty AirBnB hosts who mis-represent where the house is, and consider filthy, cigarette ash and doghair everywhere as acceptable. Arsehole.
Not the way to end a holiday.
And swerving back on topic,
IT’S A ****ING DRAWER! WHY IS THIS SUCH A DIFFICULT WORD?! AAAARRRGHGHGTHGH!!11!ELEVEN
Because I struggle with these things .
I often read and re read to see if I've dropped any howlers. Much more obvious on WhatsApp as I can't edit it.
Actually no worse than I often see on news items (not on Singletrack), which are written by people paid to do so.