Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
That’s particularly rubbish.
The two bottom middle squares clearly have some traffic light in them.
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
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That’s particularly rubbish.
The two bottom middle squares clearly have some traffic light in them.
Mad Doug Biker
Mediocrity Manifest.
- Location
- Craggy Island
People who refer to us all as
'Troops'
"Right Troops..."
No! You could have not put me off you quicker.
Unless this is the Army, why are you speaking to me like that? I am not in your 'gang' or anything else either.
There's a couple of local business that do this with every announcement they make.
I have not and never will buy their products or use their services.
It just sounds unprofessional and a bit 'Neddish'/Chavish/whatever your local term.
'Troops'
"Right Troops..."
No! You could have not put me off you quicker.
Unless this is the Army, why are you speaking to me like that? I am not in your 'gang' or anything else either.
There's a couple of local business that do this with every announcement they make.
I have not and never will buy their products or use their services.
It just sounds unprofessional and a bit 'Neddish'/Chavish/whatever your local term.
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Mad Doug Biker
Mediocrity Manifest.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Oh and people who slurp hot drinks... AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
I have heard of worse than "team"!!
Mad Doug Biker
Mediocrity Manifest.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Yes, "Troops". 😆
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
Yeah - I was looking up stupid way of addressing people and typed the wrong one
Most places I have worked terms like troops and team were used in a rather cynical way
except for a few courses I was sent on - normally only a day or something
I was lucky that that company was run by a family that understood that their company was based in Liverpool and "Americanised" "team building" concepts had to be treated with caution regarding their employees!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I am "annoyed beyond expectations"... with myself!
I wanted to know the display size of my phone in mm. I searched online and was told its aspect ratio and diagonal size in inches but I was irritated that nobody seemed to have published the width and height in mm. I carried on searching.
But then I finally realised that I had the phone in my hand and could simply measure the size of the screen myself...
It isn't that I have (yet!) gone completely doolally, more that I sometimes turn to Google for information without even thinking first!
PS Display width = 65 mm; height = 144 mm.
I wanted to know the display size of my phone in mm. I searched online and was told its aspect ratio and diagonal size in inches but I was irritated that nobody seemed to have published the width and height in mm. I carried on searching.
But then I finally realised that I had the phone in my hand and could simply measure the size of the screen myself...
It isn't that I have (yet!) gone completely doolally, more that I sometimes turn to Google for information without even thinking first!
PS Display width = 65 mm; height = 144 mm.
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
The information that you had would have been sufficient on its own to allow the dimensions of the display to be derived.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I do actually know Pythagoras's Theorem and the conversion factor between inches and mm!
Part of my irritation was that people still insist on using imperial units. I thought that they were silly from when I first learned about them 65 years ago, and was greatly relieved when my next school only used metric units, and that was a whopping 60 years ago. Flipping heck, catch up at the back!
The other annoyance was that I had spent minutes Googling rather than seconds doing the calculation.
Remembering that I could just measure the damn thing was the icing on the irritating cake!
Anyway, I am no longer annoyed because I have done what I set out to do - produce a test version of the puzzle game I wrote, scaled to run on my Pixel phone at about the size that it would eventually be on a Pixel smartwatch. To be honest, I could have just guessed a scale factor and adjusted that until the simulated watch display was the right size! What is really pleasing is that the game is actually (just) playable at that size.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Give me a minute or so to think about that.People who insist on using metric - BRING BACK BASE 60!
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
This annoys me as well. I was searching on FB marketplace for decking boards (to see if anyone had any used ones going cheap). I came across an ad for some scaffold boards at the length I require, for £10. I thought, that'll do nicely. Imagine my annoyance when I read the full listing and it said "£10 per metric foot".
I have 2 problems with this. Firstly, this habit of advertising an item for a very reasonable price, only then to state in the description that it is per metre or per weight or whatever. The big suppliers do this well, stating clearly in the thumbnail/price drop-down what the price will be for your chosen length. But when people try to copy this, badly, it really grates on me.
Secondly, AFAIA a foot isn't metric
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Fine as far as it goes, but that's nearly 5mm over 30 cm.
Wouldn't it be simpler just to use metric like the rest of the world?
