Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

gothatway said:

Oops, schoolgirl error right there

Oops typo. Mea culpa.

[nonsequitur]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

gothatway said:

. Mea culpa.:

If you insist, milk no sugar please.

[Cobnapint]

Frank7 said:

Cobnapint said:

I suppose they must comply with whatever requirements there are for indicators, but I don't see how. There isn't a definite on/off.

I misunderstood that at first, I thought that you meant no way to turn them off, but you presumably meant no blink on/off.
I see what you mean, but if I came up behind an Audi using them, I think within one second, I’d “get” the driver’s intention to move left or right.

You presume correctly.

I've just had a butcher at the regulations. It says that indicators -
shall when in operation show a light which flashes constantly at the rate of not less than 60 nor more than 120 flashes per minute.

Do VAG's 'flash'....?

(Don't wake the OH)

[popeyewhite]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

popeyewhite said:

VAG IS the Volkswagen Audi Group, regardless of how technically accurate the definition of the acronym is.

No it isn't!

Colloquially, it is. Would you like me to explain 'colloquially'?

[popeyewhite]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Just admit you were incorrect / mislead and move on.

"mislead"?

Oh okay, just seen the 'typo' excuse.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

popeyewhite said:

Colloquially, it is. Would you like me to explain 'colloquially'?

Yes, please mansplain this to me.

Just admit that you made a boo boo, and let's move on.

[popeyewhite]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Yes, please mansplain this to me.

I'm not sure what "mansplain" is but if it will help:

most English people don't think or speak German so when then they see/read VAG, the phrase 'Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft' doesn't immediately pop into their head. I'm sure that's a huge surprise to you but yes, it's true. The common, informal understanding (to well, really everyone except some contributors to this forum) of the acronym is Volkswagen Audi Group. And that is a colloquialism.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

popeyewhite said:

I'm not sure what "mansplain" is but if it will help:

most English people don't think or speak German so when then they see/read VAG, the phrase 'Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft' doesn't immediately pop into their head. I'm sure that's a huge surprise to you but yes, it's true. The common, informal understanding (to well, really everyone except some contributors to this forum) of the acronym is Volkswagen Audi Group. And that is a colloquialism.

I think what *really* annoys you beyond reason is that you got called out over this and your ego is too fragile to admit you were wrong, so you have to somehow "win" even from an untenable position.

The fact that many people share a common misconception doesn't make it correct. Otherwise the anti-vaxers and flat-earthers would have a valid point of view. But they don't, because vaccination demonstrably works and we know for a fact that the Earth isn't flat.

But, sure, if it makes you feel better then you can carry on erroneously thinking that VAG stands for "Volkswagen Audi Group" if it makes you happy, but don't try to tell me I am wrong for being right.

[Fastdruid]

gothatway said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

VAG stands for "Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft", abbreviated to "Volkswagen AG". It's a German company structure not dissimilar to our PLC.

Indeed, but flipping Germans; surely you'd expect them to be consistent at least ? Given the capitalisation in GmbH, surely it should just be VA - or at a pinch, VwAg ?

I suspect it's because of the typical German tendency to conjugate words to make a bigger word as I found out from looking on wikipedia it comes from Aktien and Gesellschaft hence Aktiengesellschaft = AG.

Wikipedia said:

Aktien meaning shares, and Gesellschaft in this context meaning corporation; from its other meaning of an organized group working together, and periodically meeting, because of common interests (Society). An English translation can therefore be "share corporation" or joint-stock company.

[DaveGoddard]

FFS, stop having a fking st-fit over every tiny point made on this bloody forum!

[underwhelmist]

We had new doors and windows fitted a while back. My new front door key is an Avocet. It has a magnet embedded near the end of the key blade. I do not know why. I keep my keys in the same pocket where I keep my change. Many coins are now made out of magnetic metals. Now, when I take my keys out of my pocket, I erupt a shower of small change all over the drive/pavement/wherever I happen to be.

This annoys me beyond all reason and comprehension.

[davhill]

Antony Moxey said:

Speaking of VAG, we found these in France this summer. Always nice to have a hint of minty freshness when you’re travelling in hot countries...

Sure you were using them at right end? Looks suspiciously like a brand of French pessary to me.

[Bandit110]

I get bothered by people using correct punctuation and spelling in text messages 🙄

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Fastdruid said:

I suspect it's because of the typical German tendency to conjugate words to make a bigger word as I found out from looking on wikipedia it comes from Aktien and Gesellschaft hence Aktiengesellschaft = AG.

Wikipedia said:

Aktien meaning shares, and Gesellschaft in this context meaning corporation; from its other meaning of an organized group working together, and periodically meeting, because of common interests (Society). An English translation can therefore be "share corporation" or joint-stock company.

Yes, quite. The Germans do tend to run the words of a phrase together to make a new word. For example, the German for a submarine is Unterseeboot (literally undertheseaboat), hence U-boat.

AG is not that much different to PLC. Only instead of Public Limited Company it would be Publiclimitedcompany.

The Italians have a simar company structure to an AG, only theirs is S.p.A (Società per azioni). Scuderia Ferrari S.p.A., for example.

[Shakermaker]

popeyewhite said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

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People who think "VAG" stands for "Volkswagen Audi Group" annoy me beyond reason.

VAG IS the Volkswagen Audi Group, regardless of how technically accurate the definition of the acronym is.

My turn,

People who don't know how to use quotation marks correctly annoy me beyond reason.

VASSIMBSCPLBG would be more accurate in that context, surely?.

I can't pronounce that.

[227bhp]

Bandit110 said:

I get bothered by people using correct punctuation and spelling in text messages ??

I get bothered by this nonsense '🙄' what is it? It shows as ?? in your quote.

[227bhp]

Search engines which can't get mileage even remotely accurate.

Zoopla: 'Search for house within 1 mile of Manchester'
'We've found 6 million properties which match your criteria'
'near Birmingham'.

Ffs

[MartG]

227bhp said:

Search engines which can't get mileage even remotely accurate.

Zoopla: 'Search for house within 1 mile of Manchester'
'We've found 6 million properties which match your criteria'
'near Birmingham'.

Ffs

Ah yes - there's also the ones which find properties within a 10 mile search radius, but neglect that there's a little thing called Morecambe Bay in the way - and the actual journey to get there is over 60 miles

[nicanary]

MartG said:

227bhp said:

Search engines which can't get mileage even remotely accurate.

Zoopla: 'Search for house within 1 mile of Manchester'
'We've found 6 million properties which match your criteria'
'near Birmingham'.

Ffs

Ah yes - there's also the ones which find properties within a 10 mile search radius, but neglect that there's a little thing called Morecambe Bay in the way - and the actual journey to get there is over 60 miles

I live near the coast of Northern Ireland, and a search for anything within 40/50 miles produces results in Scotland and the Isle of Man.

[anonymous-user]

MartG said:

Ah yes - there's also the ones which find properties within a 10 mile search radius, but neglect that there's a little thing called Morecambe Bay in the way - and the actual journey to get there is over 60 miles

We get the same in Bristol, only we get Wales hoping up in searches