Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[loudlashadjuster]

MartG said:

Given that a car's braking system consists of multiple pipes and hoses connected together, surely that would be classed as a 'line' too ?

I have no problem with that nomenclature

[can't remember]

RizzoTheRat said:

Moved to a new office and the gents loo has a shiny metal paper towel dispenser...which completely fails at it's only role by ripping the edge off every paper towel you try and take out of it. How the hell does someone design something which is so unfit for purpose? Although I will accept there's slim chance that they're stocking it with the wrong type of paper towel in which case how did someone buy something so unfit for purpose?

Our cleaner at work insists on putting the paper towels in the dispenser upside down and filling it to the brim. This makes it impossible to get one towel out in one piece. You end up drying your hands with either little scraps of towel or a handful of towels when they finally dislodge. The cleaner is a lovely woman but at 73 years old there is no point trying to tell her anything.

[RizzoTheRat]

Automated phone systems coupled with insurance companies, further complicated by me not speaking the language very well.

My insurance company does breakdown cover at competitive rates, so I phoned the main contact number, who tried to put me through to insurance, but couldn't get through, so gave me the number to ring.
Called that number, worked out the right number to press for car insurance, and got through to find she only did new policies and I needed to speak to someone else to change my policy. She put me through to the right department who gave me a quote, put me on hold, and then randomly put me through to someone else who had no idea why I'd called him, and while his English was better than my Dutch we still didn't understand each other very well. He put me through to someone else who found that the initial quote had been put on the system but only for Europe excluding the Netherlands, so managed to make it the whole of Europe and finally put it through.. but it turns out to be pretty much the same price as the national breakdown company I'd found online and could have just signed up to in about 2 minutes.

TLDR: 45 minutes on the phone to 5 different people in 2 languages and I think I now have breakdown recovery in time to drive to Germany this afternoon, but for the same cost as I could have done it online with another company in about 2 minutes.

[glenrobbo]

neelyp said:

SlimJim16v said:

Back on topic, they're not fking brake or fuel lines, if it's solid, it's a pipe; if it's flexible, it's a hose.
A line is something you draw on a piece of paper, or going by some posts, something you snort.

What about a pipeline?
e.g. The Forties Pipeline System.

I would suggest multiple sections of pipes (or hoses) make up a line, certainly based on what they are referred to in the Oil & Gas industry.

Then there's the Onedin Line, the Maginot Line, the Party line, the washing line, the telephone line, the demarcation line, a sales line, a new product line....

[V8mate]

glenrobbo said:

neelyp said:

SlimJim16v said:

Back on topic, they're not fking brake or fuel lines, if it's solid, it's a pipe; if it's flexible, it's a hose.
A line is something you draw on a piece of paper, or going by some posts, something you snort.

What about a pipeline?
e.g. The Forties Pipeline System.

I would suggest multiple sections of pipes (or hoses) make up a line, certainly based on what they are referred to in the Oil & Gas industry.

Then there's the Onedin Line, the Maginot Line, the Party line, the washing line, the telephone line, the demarcation line, a sales line, a new product line....

But what's the punchline?

[SlimJim16v]

Radiator line?

[Cotty]

Don't mention The Tube

"The Tube map is a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the London Underground, known colloquially as "the Tube","

[yellowjack]

Never mind all that. With all the things that annoy me beyond all reason, I've got my 'Worry Lines' to, well...


...worry about.

[SlimJim16v]

Cotty said:

Don't mention The Tube

"The Tube map is a schematic transport map

More fking Americanisms. No, the tube map is a fking map. How long before we see hood or trunk?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

SlimJim16v said:

More fking Americanisms. No, the tube map is a fking map. How long before we see hood or trunk?

Strictly speaking, it's more of a diagram than a map as it is not geographically accurate. Indeed, if one wanted to be precise, one would say it is a schematic diagram.

schematic
/skiːˈmatɪk,skɪˈmatɪk/
adjective: schematic
    1. (of a diagram or other representation) symbolic and simplified.

[SlimJim16v]

Over here in the UK*, we use plan or diagram. Schematic is something I've only ever heard being used in US films or TV programmes.

*In my experience.

Edited by SlimJim16v to keep Clockwork Cupcake happy

Edited by SlimJim16v on Friday 9th August 20:22

[Clockwork Cupcake]

SlimJim16v said:

Over here in the UK, we use plan or diagram. Schematic is something I've only ever heard being used in US films or TV programmes.

Do we? All of us? Every single one?

I admire your extensive research. Or perhaps you're just talking out of your arse.

[SlimJim16v]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Do we? All of us? Every single one?

I admire your extensive research. Or perhaps you're just talking out of your arse.

Though I rarely, IMHO, talk out of my arse, I have ammended my post

[Johnspex]

It's really annoying when you pick up your glass in the pub and the beer mat has stuck to the bottom.

[Bobberoo99]

Johnspex said:

It's really annoying when you pick up your glass in the pub and the beer mat has stuck to the bottom.

Regular thing with me at home, pick up a glass off the little side table and there's a coaster stuck to the bottom which invariably drops off and makes me jump, you'd have thought that after it's happened eleventy hundred times I'd have been used to it!!

[67Dino]

Serious question: Why do they cone off mile after mile of motorway, with minimal work going on much of it, equipment spread out along the whole way, and only work on a tiny section? Surely it would be cheaper - and certainly cause less disruption - to work more intensively on on smaller sections at a time and get them done before moving on.

If anyone out there has expertise in road maintenance, love to know.

[nonsequitur]

67Dino said:

Serious question: Why do they cone off mile after mile of motorway, with minimal work going on much of it, equipment spread out along the whole way, and only work on a tiny section? Surely it would be cheaper - and certainly cause less disruption - to work more intensively on on smaller sections at a time and get them done before moving on.

If anyone out there has expertise in road maintenance, love to know.

Calling Opulent Bob, Calling...

[Frank7]

SlimJim16v said:

Over here in the UK*, we use plan or diagram. Schematic is something I've only ever heard being used in US films or TV programmes.

*In my experience.

Edited by SlimJim16v to keep Clockwork Cupcake happy

Edited by SlimJim16v on Friday 9th August 20:22

I regularly wind my wife up by calling my mobile a cell phone, because I know that she’ll bite every time, similarly I tell her that we’re all out of Saran Wrap, rather than clingfilm, as it’s guaranteed to drive her nuts, but I’d never heard of schematic.
Now I want to slip that in to a conversation, but as she’s probably never heard of it either, it will be wasted.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

"Schematic" is a word I've frequently come across in my background of science, electronics, hardware, and software.

[Norfolkit]

SlimJim16v said:

Cotty said:

Don't mention The Tube

"The Tube map is a schematic transport map

More fking Americanisms. No, the tube map is a fking map. How long before we see hood or trunk?

Don't watch the new Wheeler Dealers for gods sake.