Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[Archie_tect]

Datsun?

My dad sold a clapped out four year old rusty Escort to buy a Datsun 160B; primrose yellow with a tan vinyl roof... it looked as bad as it sounds... but unlike the Escort it didn't rust and it didn't break down.

 

[Archie_tect]

Brexit...

 

[Chris S]

On that subject, why do adolescent schoolboys still measure their manhoods in inches?
a) Schools have been predominantly teaching the metric system for at least 40 years.
b) Inches do not provide sufficient granularity to measure them precisely and today's schoolboys are not used to thinking in eighths of inches and sixteenths of inches.

If anything should be recorded in mil...

Because they can round-up to the nearest inch?

 

[Lullabelle]

Why some companies have to make things so difficult. The company I work for recently changed their name so we have been notifying all of our suppliers/providers. About 98% have made changes to their systems with the minimum of fuss, a small few have made things ridiculously long winded and complicated

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Why does my new kitchen sink which is ceramic scratches easier than a key down a car door but my ceramic plates and bowls are all fine even with a metal spoon on them

 

[simonali]

Nearly every day I see this beardy hipster type. He's probably in his mid thirties, big ZZ Top beard, trews tucked in his socks and he's always walking along whilst pushing a BMX.

Why does he take a bike with him if he's walking? Is he too embarrassed to ride it away from the other cool 80s kids at the skate park/BMX track?

Why doesn't he have a grown up's bike? A fixie would be just as hip, wouldn't it?

Is the BMX even his? Is he walking to a school to collect his small bearded child?

 

[Yellow Fang]

What's so great about monocoque construction? Whenever I built plastic kits of Spitfires, the details would usually say it was designed to have monocoque construction. When I finally found out what monocoque construction was, it was what I assumed it was anyway.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Positron Emission Tomography, i.e. PET scans. Isn't injecting anti-matter into your brain a bad idea?

 

[swee'pea99]

Why are they called mini cabs? It's not like they're small.

 

[mustang1]

Assumptions
And
Reading in between the lines
And
Executive summaries
And
People who say "I'm going to make an executive decision"
And
People who say "that's above my pay grade"

 

[mustang1]

Anyone who calls out on a badly parked or driven prestigious car, yet ignores all the bad driving/parking done in cheaper models.

 

[Dave7]

Because they can round-up to the nearest inch?

We used to do that. I rounded mine up to 2 inches.

 

[Archie_tect]

Theresa May talking, out loud.

 

[MikeG]

Theresa May talking, out loud.

Given that she never has anything to say, I've virtually eliminated the pain by astute use of the mute button. If I want to hear someone saying the same thing over and over again I can always just repeatedly press the play button on my answerphone.

 

[derrick]

Given that she never has anything to say, I've virtually eliminated the pain by astute use of the mute button. If I want to hear someone saying the same thing over and over again I can always just repeatedly press the play button on my answerphone.

Or just click on the brexit thread,