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

[Digga]

New day, new moan; traffic & travel announcers on Planet Rock; why are they all Jockanese?

Nothing against the Scottish, but no idea what's so difficult about the word "vehicle". How on earth does it end up being pronounced "vee-kul"?

(Yes, I know that's probably better than the hayseed-USA "vee-hickle" pronunciation, but still.)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

talksthetorque said:

DVDs - How quaint

I'll often buy DVDs in charity shop for pennies. My BD player does upscaling, and my telly is a plasma which is brilliant at displaying SD feeds. By contrast, the LCD telly in my home office is almost unwatchable with SD feeds.

[vaud]

talksthetorque said:

Cotty said:

talksthetorque said:

Ever listen to the radio in the car?
You know, those stations without adverts?
Or go on BBC Websites or sports apps?
Watch iPlayer?

Out of those you only need a licence to watch IPlayer the others you can use without a licence.

Yes, that's true, and yet the BBC provides them from the money it gets from the licence fee.

Aside from World Service, which is partly funded by the FCO.

[Gary29]

Crap reality TV where the people taking part play the narrator AFTER the event directly involving them has happened, as if they don't know what's already happened.

You know what I mean, s!

[MartG]

Roadwork signage which causes more of an obstruction than the bloody roadworks do

Diversion signage which blocks a quarter of the narrow road traffic is being diverted down

[TCEvo]

MartG said:

Roadwork signage which causes more of an obstruction than the bloody roadworks do

Diversion signage which blocks a quarter of the narrow road traffic is being diverted down

On a similar note, fking great roadworks signs; weighed down with sandbags, plonked on the pavement so you have to step into the road to avoid the sign

[SCEtoAUX]

My RAV4 has a central display screen. The icons for FM, AM and DAB are little radios. Good so far.

In the centre of my dashboard is another screen, and this can also display radio icons. The two for AM and FM are little transmitter icons. Would have been nicer if they matched the main display, but I can live with this.

What I can't live with is the fact that the DAB icon is a satellite, something like the space station. What the actual fk? Did someone at Toyota think that DAB comes from satellites? Honestly I'm tempted to return the whole car, I've come to expect more from Toyota.

[vaud]

SCEtoAUX said:

What I can't live with is the fact that the DAB icon is a satellite, something like the space station. What the actual fk? Did someone at Toyota think that DAB comes from satellites? Honestly I'm tempted to return the whole car, I've come to expect more from Toyota.

Icon set for largest market - USA - where they have satellite radio (Sirius, etc)?

[SCEtoAUX]

vaud said:

SCEtoAUX said:

What I can't live with is the fact that the DAB icon is a satellite, something like the space station. What the actual fk? Did someone at Toyota think that DAB comes from satellites? Honestly I'm tempted to return the whole car, I've come to expect more from Toyota.

Icon set for largest market - USA - where they have satellite radio (Sirius, etc)?

Surely not. They got it right in the big display so no reason for it to be right in the little one as well.

[Europa1]

The Cambridge chapter of Extinction Rebellion, for causing far more disruption than they should be able to, and the institutional paralysis/fear that seems to have seized the local police and the council in stopping said disruption.

[RizzoTheRat]

talksthetorque said:

Fair enough then.

It annoys me when people say that the TV licence is a "scam" and then ask If I head Ken Bruce or whoever yesterday or watched Killing Eve on the Iplayer.
Not sure that Britbox is the way forward either.

The main thing that annoys me about the BBC licence fee is I pay it and they still won't let me watch iplayer! They really a system to let you watch it from abroad legitimately rather than having to use a vpn.

[SCEtoAUX]

Europa1 said:

The Cambridge chapter of Extinction Rebellion, for causing far more disruption than they should be able to, and the institutional paralysis/fear that seems to have seized the local police and the council in stopping said disruption.

Beyond reason?

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[popeyewhite]

This one's been winding my tits up to the point of rupture recently:

"A month's worth of rain"

1. which month?
2. exactly four weeks, or maybe February
3. which year/decade/century?
4. county specific? I mean the average February in Snowdonia will record far more rainfall than February in Cheshire, obviously
5. unless since records began there's somewhere that got exactly the same rainfall twice, how can they claim it's a month's worth/calculate a mean?

[talksthetorque]

RizzoTheRat said:

talksthetorque said:

Fair enough then.

It annoys me when people say that the TV licence is a "scam" and then ask If I head Ken Bruce or whoever yesterday or watched Killing Eve on the Iplayer.
Not sure that Britbox is the way forward either.

The main thing that annoys me about the BBC licence fee is I pay it and they still won't let me watch iplayer! They really a system to let you watch it from abroad legitimately rather than having to use a vpn.

That's about the BBC selling programmes abroad.
They'd struggle to do that if people in that country can get it for free.
So if they let you do it your licence fee would be higher!

Similarly it cheeses me off that I can't listen to my team's football match on streamed local radio. I live about 10 miles outside radio broadcast range.

[Digga]

popeyewhite said:

This one's been winding my tits up to the point of rupture recently:

"A month's worth of rain"

1. which month?
2. exactly four weeks, or maybe February
3. which year/decade/century?
4. county specific? I mean the average February in Snowdonia will record far more rainfall than February in Cheshire, obviously
5. unless since records began there's somewhere that got exactly the same rainfall twice, how can they claim it's a month's worth/calculate a mean?

The clue is in the Met office map; it's coloured by location, so each area is compared to its own, hiostoric average data. I find it fascinating, actually.



https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office...

[Roofless Toothless]

I think another problem with using 'a month's worth of rain' as a comparitor, is that it somehow implies that rain usually comes evenly distributed day by day for each four week period.

Of course, it doesn't. Any rainfall 'event' will comprise a possibly surprising large percentage of the monthly total, and in the summer more so. A thunderstorm in the middle of an otherwise dry August will be 'a month's worth' by definition, and is not that remarkable, but this doesn't stop the hyperbole.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

I think they say it because saying "A fkload of rain" wouldn't get past the censors.

Joking aside, though, it's not a precise scientific measurement to the nearest millilitre. They're just trying to convey that it is an order of magnitude greater than normal.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

popeyewhite said:

IT MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT TELLING US WHICH MONTH

You could look at a clock or a calendar or something to tell which month we are currently in.

[Shakermaker]

I haven't eaten since Wednesday but somehow, there's still a lot of poo coming out. This is very annoying.

[popeyewhite]

Digga said:

The clue...

No, I didn't mean that, but anyway.

In some months average rain will have fallen, the wet days spread over most of the month, and the same month two years later the rain might have fallen over TWO DAYS. GEDDIT? So when they say a month's worth of rain will fall over the weekend it might be perfectly normal.

Secondly the fact it's an average means that at certain times in the past OVER a month's worth of rain has fallen doesn't it? Point being an average month might not be that catastrophic, or at least not the rain of biblical proportions that the weather numpties are trying to foist on us.