Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
Punctilio said:
Turtle Shed said:
Football reports along the lines of "Aston Villa double their lead".
The implication being that doubling is really good. Well yes, but far any team would prefer to increase its lead by 25%, or better still, just 10%....
Can there be 10% of a goal ? The implication being that doubling is really good. Well yes, but far any team would prefer to increase its lead by 25%, or better still, just 10%....
A team winning 1-0 doubles their lead if they score a goal. Commentators often make a big deal out of this, but whilst it is the highest percentage that a team can increase a lead by, it only means a two goal lead.
If a team is winning 4-0 and they score, they only increase their lead by 20%, but by doing so they move into a five goal lead. etc......
Antony Moxey said:
And this annoys you? Good grief.
Such is the fabulosity of the thread, I find myself rolling my eyes when goal scorers do the finger to the lips Ssshhh celebration thing,
fervently hoping one day the crowd will obey the wish and remain silent with arms folded
when some tattooed nobb-end flukes a toe-poke.
TameRacingDriver said:
windows is worse than Android will ever be for this. Every time I have an update, Edge be like "would you like to apply recommended settings?" No, f
k off. And that bing button is an abomination. I'm seriously thinking of ditching it now, it used to be a good browser, now it's just there to spy on you.
Zumbruk said:
Pi day on the 14th March.
Only in America.
The rest of the world it's 22nd July.
Interesting that British Pie Week doesn't encompass either of those dates.Only in America.
The rest of the world it's 22nd July.
Doofus said:
Porsche saying that an ICE car, 'Turbo' is a mechanical boost device, but on an EV it's a trim level.
Almost like the old "turbo" button on the front of a 486 PC.
singlecoil said:
"Digital" headphones. Ears are analogue.
They receive a digital signal from the source, that's why they're digital 
the headphones then convert that to analogue for your analogue ears.It makes sense to me as someone into hifi my whole life (but no, I won't call myself an audiophile, that's another annoyance for another post).
TameRacingDriver said:
singlecoil said:
"Digital" headphones. Ears are analogue.
They receive a digital signal from the source, that's why they're digital the headphones then convert that to analogue for your analogue ears.It makes sense to me as someone into hifi my whole life (but no, I won't call myself an audiophile, that's another annoyance for another post).
I doubt if you are old enough to have been into hi-fi as long as I have (I had an Akai 4000D when it was a current model)
singlecoil said:
TameRacingDriver said:
singlecoil said:
"Digital" headphones. Ears are analogue.
They receive a digital signal from the source, that's why they're digital the headphones then convert that to analogue for your analogue ears.It makes sense to me as someone into hifi my whole life (but no, I won't call myself an audiophile, that's another annoyance for another post).
I doubt if you are old enough to have been into hi-fi as long as I have (I had an Akai 4000D when it was a current model)
TameRacingDriver said:
singlecoil said:
"Digital" headphones. Ears are analogue.
They receive a digital signal from the source, that's why they're digital the headphones then convert that to analogue for your analogue ears.It makes sense to me as someone into hifi my whole life (but no, I won't call myself an audiophile, that's another annoyance for another post).
Are you listening?
You can't hear me, can you?
singlecoil said:
It doesn't matter whether the DAC (digital to analogue converter) is in the headphones or somewhere upstream, the essential aspect of the headphones is the transducers, and these are analogue.
I doubt if you are old enough to have been into hi-fi as long as I have (I had an Akai 4000D when it was a current model)
I had a crystal wireless. That was digital, in the sense that it either worked or did not, with nothing in between. It was the cat's whiskers back in the day.I doubt if you are old enough to have been into hi-fi as long as I have (I had an Akai 4000D when it was a current model)
Then transistor radios came along and we could all hear Radio Luxembourg getting washed up on the beach every evening...
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