Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
The Birmingham bin strike is almost over. I will no longer be able to put garden waste in my domestic rubbish.
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
- Thread starter PaulB
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Windle
Über Member
- Location
- Burnthouses
Talking of councils..... as I drove to work this morning (to earn money to pay my ridiculous council tax bill), clattering over disintegrating roads I spied one of their operatives with a leaf blower, strolling down a footpath that I've never seen anybody use, blowing leaves off onto the grass.
I'll make no comment.
I'll make no comment.
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Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
Driving down a DCW today, lane closure 400 yards ahead, everyone stopping and creating tailbacks to "get over" into the other lane. I do as the highway code says and use both lanes until it comes to the end and then merge in turn. But white van driver thinks he's a hero of the people and moves out to the left to block my progress.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
Delivery drivers who think parking in the middle of the road...on a main bus route...put your hazards on & magically think they can stay there all day whilst delivering fruit etc to shops. Can't be a**ed to park 50 yards way legally & walk with boxes. Yes, this did happen, a delivery driver caused a huge jam in Bristol by parking in the middle of a bus route because it was more convenient for him....I was on the bus watching the farce unfold.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I tend to be a bit more understanding of delivery drivers: they didn't create the system, and they work under tight timelines and the company won't be sympathetic if they are delayed because it takes them three, ten or thirty minutes longer than the timetable says it should. I well remember as an apprentice carpenter being instructed to park illegally so we were close to a job, not because it was "convenient" but because clients would time us unloading and refuse to pay for that time, meaning we operated at a loss for the day.
I can imagine some drivers deciding that with the choice of losing their job or following the protocol and risking the ire of other drivers, they'll do the latter.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
City centres are terrible for deliveries, no parking/unloading, in your instance of fruit & veg, do you want to be carrying boxes/sacks of produce that will probably weigh at least 25 kg each 50 yards, bearing in mind the employer is responsible for safe lifting & handling, it's not just "Can't be a*sed" it's for health & safety
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
They still take more time, and you have to factor in locking and unlocking the van every tome if it isn't supervised. Parking even 20m from the shop can mean the difference between making the days schedule and being chewed over by the boss/fired because the customers are complaining at the delay.
Now we'd argue that this is the better option, and indeed it works well in cities. However, then a business has to factor in the cost of transferring large loads onto several small work bikes, with drivers, which puts delivery costs up, which puts the price up for the customer, and customers then go off to out of town shopping centres, and the high street dies a little more.
Personally I think we're blaming the symptom, not the cause: instead of getting irate at delivery drivers, get rid of space wasting private cars, and hey, presto the centre has more space for everyone else, and is more pleasant and safer to boot. Unfortunately if we do this the very people complaining loudest about congestion will complain even louder...
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
That is the whole problem, and where I will chip in as a thing that also annoys me. Instead of providing these drivers with the adequate equipment to do their job, they are just told to get on with it and are responsible for any delays. It's a tactic used by many large companies to avoid their H&S responsibilities because it saves them money.
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
Smart TVs. They are so damn slow and unresponsive.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
yes, every one we've had we've plugged a firestick into it
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My old Samsung is like that but it is no longer an issue because it is now dedicated to just being an HD monitor for an Apple TV box. I use that to run the apps for my smart turbo trainer.
Regular TV duties are now the responsibility of a modern Panasonic TV which has a much faster processor capable of doing its job at a good snappy pace. No more jerky scrolling through lists of content on YouTube, Netflix, Prime etc.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
We should just use natural units where
the speed of light is 1. Conveniently that gives us a "natural units foot" which would be 1 nanosecond
Punkawallah
Veteran
What’s wrong with the ‘furlong/firkin/fortnight’ system? (Grumble, grumble)
Profpointy
Legendary Member
It's as good as other consistent systems like SI, but with "natural units" you haven't got to have different measures for time and distance.
