Sun Chariot
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Fixed that for the Doctor Who fans.
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Purple Train
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Maybe that's why they don't specify the dimensions of the rucksacks, if it's bigger on the inside...Fixed that for the Doctor Who fans.
Sun Chariot
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take a bow!I would ban the new design of large plastic drinks bottles which attempt to "attach" the screw cap to the plastic bottle.
The new design is counter to function because it makes the bottles difficult to use, after a couple of attempts to go along with it I've resorted to ripping the caps off the bottles because otherwise they get in the way when I'm trying to pour out the contents.
What annoys me is that the whole plastic recycling thing is a sham, promoted mainly by the manufacturers who use them, and this is just another kind of virtue signalling. Yes, I "recycle" my plastic and it gets collected by the council and taken away, where it is unlikely to be recycled because it's either burned or sent to a foreign country which puts them into landfill.
Also, it's penalising me for other peoples' stupidity and lack of consideration. I never did whatever it is that's supposed to be bad with the screw cap, it always went into the right bin, so in reality what this means is that the people who make these things can say "we're better than we used to be", without acknowledging that they're only slightly less terrible than they used to be.
The new design is counter to function because it makes the bottles difficult to use, after a couple of attempts to go along with it I've resorted to ripping the caps off the bottles because otherwise they get in the way when I'm trying to pour out the contents.
What annoys me is that the whole plastic recycling thing is a sham, promoted mainly by the manufacturers who use them, and this is just another kind of virtue signalling. Yes, I "recycle" my plastic and it gets collected by the council and taken away, where it is unlikely to be recycled because it's either burned or sent to a foreign country which puts them into landfill.
Also, it's penalising me for other peoples' stupidity and lack of consideration. I never did whatever it is that's supposed to be bad with the screw cap, it always went into the right bin, so in reality what this means is that the people who make these things can say "we're better than we used to be", without acknowledging that they're only slightly less terrible than they used to be.
I once bought a fabric holdall from Argos. Basically cuboid shaped. The dimensions were stated, HxWxD in cm. In practice, the only way to achieve those dimensions was to stuff it full and measure across the bulges. I returned the item.
dangie
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The size of the flat pack package it came in wouldn’t have been very helpful
GatwickDepress
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People who spam eBay categories with irrelevant rubbish - i.e. Reform UK stickers keep popping up in Railwayana. Reported it to eBay, but they don't give a figgy pudding.
61653 HTAFC
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Quite... it's bad enough when the model railway section has wagons listed as locomotives or vice-versa.
And don't get me started on the "brand" category. There's still no marker for Accurascale or Cavalex, but the likes of toy companies Corgi, Matchbox, and Tomy are on there.
dangie
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Without wishing to begin another thread. Again major not minor.
In my area we are experiencing thefts of road drain covers. Not the first time its happened, the scumbags must have moved on to somewhere else but have now returned for another round.
However this has unbelievably returned my faith in human nature.
This morning the son & daughter-in-law found a wing mirror had been snapped off their car while parked outside their house. Of course there was no sign of who'd done it. This evening when they returned from work there was a note through their letterbox with a name & phone number posted by the man who had hit their car. On speaking with him it transpired he'd driven past their house in the early hours going to work and suddenly saw a hole where a drain cover should have been. He swerved to avoid the hole and his wing mirror must have clipped the son & daughter-in-laws car. He said he heard a noise but only when he got to work saw his wing mirror was damaged. On his way home he posted the note through their letterbox. He has said he will pay for all the damage.
In my area we are experiencing thefts of road drain covers. Not the first time its happened, the scumbags must have moved on to somewhere else but have now returned for another round.
However this has unbelievably returned my faith in human nature.
This morning the son & daughter-in-law found a wing mirror had been snapped off their car while parked outside their house. Of course there was no sign of who'd done it. This evening when they returned from work there was a note through their letterbox with a name & phone number posted by the man who had hit their car. On speaking with him it transpired he'd driven past their house in the early hours going to work and suddenly saw a hole where a drain cover should have been. He swerved to avoid the hole and his wing mirror must have clipped the son & daughter-in-laws car. He said he heard a noise but only when he got to work saw his wing mirror was damaged. On his way home he posted the note through their letterbox. He has said he will pay for all the damage.
andythebrave
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It is not 'for free', it is either 'free' or 'for nothing'.
The use of the phrase 'eye watering' when something just isn't.
The use of the phrase 'eye watering' when something just isn't.
"for free" is on my big long list too!
Sun Chariot
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I applied for a free Nelson Mandela. I never received one...
Strat-tastic
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Yes indeed! Here too.
Tinned soup branded or marketed as "Big" or "Chunky" soup -- usually a meat-of-some-kind (in "chunks"), plus ditto vegetable, mix. I have found this theme on the part of the makers, distasteful and off-putting (the theme, rather than the thing in itself) ever since it first came on the scene, a few decades ago I think. This whole bit of "hoopla" raises in me feelings of distaste and un-keen-ness, instead of the presumably hoped-for stimulating of appetite and of impulse to purchase: for me, it feels redolent of "gross" / childish / repellent gluttony. Would never, for myself, choose to buy any tin of soup thus titled-and-branded. One realises that an integral part of the whole advertising / marketing business is the ceaseless dreaming-up of new gimmicks of all kinds, and the putting of same into the public arena; and with so much of this stuff perpetually going on, some of it will -- for some potential customers, at any rate -- fail of its purpose, and be a "turn-off" instead of an incentive to buy. It is thus, for me, with the whole "Big Soup" nonsense.
Lewisham2221
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Blimey! I need a lie down after reading all that; and I'm still none the wiser as to why you don't like "big soup"
gg1
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At least 4 decades. I'm in my late 40s and remember liking Big Soup as a young child, I still have the occasional tin now.
Gloster
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I keep half-a-dozen tins of the vegetable ‘flavour’, bought when they were on offer, in the cupboard in case I want something reasonably quick and not as unhealthy as the rest of my junk meals. I bulk them up with either tinned new potatoes (not much good as new potatoes, but useful for this) or noodles. I can’t say that they are my favourite food, but they are better than many alternatives, such as the thin soups that are normally available.
Am aware that extreme verbosity is a vice of mine. However, I don't in the circumstances, see any way of clarifying to you. Best, I feel, to reckon that we aren't on each other's wavelengths; and leave it at that.Blimey! I need a lie down after reading all that; and I'm still none the wiser as to why you don't like "big soup"
Thanks -- knew that this "business" had been around for a long time. I don't feel any dislike purely food-wise, of the tins' actual contents -- only, of what strikes me as the ad-man's ballyhoo surrounding the product; which, impractically and irrationally I'm sure, makes me averse to buying it. If the stuff were not marketed in these terms; I would quite likely buy it and consume it with pleasure.
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61653 HTAFC
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The BBC "Regional News" section on their website, or rather the person who decides how the stories are listed, should be banned or forced to ritually flaggelate themselves in public. For example, if I go to the "West Yorkshire" section, the top story should not be one from the "South Yorkshire" section. Why even bother splitting them out if they're not actually separate?
Gloster
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I think a lot of it is sorted by distance from wherever you put in. If I put in Ryde, my nearest town, or even Isle of Wight, I get lots of items from all over the island or even on the mainland: car accidents in Andover are not likely to be of much interest here.
Cambus731
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The term 'assist' in football
Unfortunately it's been embraced by the media.
30 years ago it didn't exist. I believe it has come from 'Fantasy Football League'
Unfortunately it's been embraced by the media.
30 years ago it didn't exist. I believe it has come from 'Fantasy Football League'
61653 HTAFC
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It comes from Fantasy Football (the game), not "Fantasy Football League" (the TV show hosted by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner).
I've no problem with the concept of assists, it's a useful statistical tool... however it does seem odd that a cross converted by an attacker is recorded as an assist, but an equally incisive cross which a defender puts through his own net isn't. Likewise if a defender gets a touch before the attacker finishes, again no assist is recorded.
Cambus731
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I was referring to the game, rather than the TV programme. The reason I got the name slightly wrong is probably because its not something I've ever participated in. That's not to to cast aspertions on the game. Just that I've never indulged in it. Nevertheless I do find the fact that the term 'assist' has become mainstream very irritating
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Gloster
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I thought it originally came from one of the sports that are really only played in American, although I can’t remember which one.
I suspect the assist term was originally imported from basketball but it might have been ice hockey
dangie
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Totally agree. A player passes to another player who scores, it’s called an ‘assist’. No….. it’s football.
Taking it further, if the goalkeeper rolls the ball to a player who then passes to another player who then passes to another player who then passes to a player who scores, are they all ‘assists’?
I don’t suppose it will be long before every time a goalkeeper touches the ball it will be counted as a ‘save’.
Sun Chariot
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I think the only time "assist" can legitimately be used, is when a locomotive buffers up to a train to help an ailing other loco.
gg1
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Not unlike the 'shots on target' stat where a soft kick which even I could have saved** still counts.
**for context, I was one of the two kids who was always picked last when playing football. As was traditional in 1980s PE lessons, the worst player on the team generally ended up in goal.
I'd ban the microphones which people - not exclusively politicians - use these days which sprout out and around their heads and look like some kind of mushroom. I just think they look silly. Give me a hand-held microphone any day, or even a clip-on shirt microphone. I can't take people seriously - if I ever could - when I see them.