Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[Yellow Fang]

Maybe whenever they turn them on it is a complete reset and they have to choose a setting? Like how my headlight remembers its setting when I turn it back on but my taillights you have to click through all the modes to get what you want after you have shut them off.

I just keep my phaser set on Stunning, like Geordie LaForge...

Or it could be part of the safety procedure. It might be part of the drill.

 

[ADarkDraconis]

Airplanes. I know that it makes scientific sense with thrust and lift and aerodynamics and such, and the rational part of my brain understands that they should fly. But deep deep down in the more primitive part of my brain it just screams 'Big hunk of metal weighing tons that is full of people (which in vast numbers also add a lot of weight) should not be able to fly and will plummet from the skyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!'

 

[classic33]

Airplanes. I know that it makes scientific sense with thrust and lift and aerodynamics and such, and the rational part of my brain understands that they should fly. But deep deep down in the more primitive part of my brain it just screams 'Big hunk of metal weighing tons that is full of people (which in vast numbers also add a lot of weight) should not be able to fly and will plummet from the skyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!'

Summat like this

 

[Chris S]

Do Teletubbies look fat to Americans?

 

[ADarkDraconis]

Do Teletubbies look fat to Americans?

Yes, but fat Americans also look fat to Americans. They know they are fat, and even the thin anorexic ones are made to think they are fat due to advertisers.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Decimal fractions? Doesn't help with an interval.

Went for decimal in the end. It's odd there is no word like percentage for a value between 0 and 1.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Airplanes. I know that it makes scientific sense with thrust and lift and aerodynamics and such, and the rational part of my brain understands that they should fly. But deep deep down in the more primitive part of my brain it just screams 'Big hunk of metal weighing tons that is full of people (which in vast numbers also add a lot of weight) should not be able to fly and will plummet from the skyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!'

Try not to think that on the plane. If enough passengers think at the same time, it's likely to happen.

 

[classic33]

Try not to think that on the plane. If enough passengers think at the same time, it's likely to happen.

Just hope the glue holds when it gets cold.

 

[marinyork]

Went for decimal in the end. It's odd there is no word like percentage for a value between 0 and 1.

Well if it makes you feel any better it is essentially one of the most famous problems in mathematics: are there any infinite sets between the rationals (fractions) and real numbers (all the bits in the middle). The real numbers vastly outnumber and include the rationals.

I suppose probabilities and various other things like Lebesque measures have all values in the closed interval 0 to 1. That includes all the real numbers though.

 

[Lozz360]

See post #124.

Whoops! My first ever TMN!

 

[Lavender Rose]

Leisure Centre Idiots: Why do people STILL ASK if something is cancelled, even if there are signs?!

 

[Yellow Fang]

Leisure Centre Idiots: Why do people STILL ASK if something is cancelled, even if there are signs?!

I hope you are polite to them.

 

[Yellow Fang]

The tilde ~ on a keyboard: what's it used for, and wouldn't a degree symbol
° have been a lot more useful?

 

[Blue Hills]

Why is every new work space, canteen, community centre etc now called "The Hub"

In the case of supposedly trendy workplaces because they would like you to live there, endlessly spinning like a hamster in a wheel, or bearings in a, er, hub, gradually being worn down.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Why does the music industry have to recycle genre names so much? R&B used to mean Rhythm and Blues, now it means some other type of music I never listen to. Country music is now bland American pop, while old style country music like Tammy Wynette and Emmy Lou Harris used to sing is now rebranded Americana. Garage music used to mean a style of amateurish American rock music. Even New Wave music has been changed retrospectively. I was pretty certain New Wave music was like Blondie and all the other types of music brought in by punk in the late 70s, but which weren't punk. Now youngsters seem to think it includes all those synth keyboard bands from the 80s such as Depeche Mode and Yazoo.