Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

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Jameshow

Guru
Staged fights on Facebook reels. It's usually somebody defending their girlfriend or a 'little guy'.

Well you must like watching them to see more of then!🤣🤣🤣
 

Punkawallah

Veteran
you can measure length with a clock.
Speed of light is fixed so a nanosecond is about a foot

Admittedly it is easier with a ruler marked in nanoseconds rather than a clock, at least for everyday tasks like woodwork

I’ll leave you to deal with your baggage - I’ll deal with my own.
 

No Ta Doctor

Über Member
you can measure length with a clock.
Speed of light is fixed so a nanosecond is about a foot

Admittedly it is easier with a ruler marked in nanoseconds rather than a clock, at least for everyday tasks like woodwork

I'm working on a tool to replace my spirit level to work out if my shelves are level. It's going to use two atomic clocks. If one is higher than the other there will be a time difference due to gravitational time dilation.
 

Jameshow

Guru
I'm working on a tool to replace my spirit level to work out if my shelves are level. It's going to use two atomic clocks. If one is higher than the other there will be a time difference due to gravitational time dilation.

I generally use a blob of treacle... If the blob doesn't move its level!!
 

No Ta Doctor

Über Member
I generally use a blob of treacle... If the blob doesn't move its level!!

You could use bitumen instead, though you might need a ruler marked in Jiffys - probably made out of Plancks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

Pitch_drop_experiment_with_John_Mainstone.jpg


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No Ta Doctor

Über Member
Apparently sometime after 1988 air conditioning was installed in the area where the experiment is on show, the lower average temperature explains the apparent slowing down.

Also lower mass in the funnel, so reduced pressure, but I couldn't tell you by how much without a barometer, a mass spectrometer, and an astrolabe
 
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