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What's annoying me today

tricky
2 May 2023
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    Russ
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    23 Oct 2023, 8:58 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 8:58 p.m.
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    @tricky has written:
    @Russ has written:

    I'd rather he just told me where the one I'm sure I have has got to.

    No problem. It's where you left it, or someone else has moved it.

    Happy to help.

    The engineer's response. Technically completely correct, and of absolutely no help.

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    Russ
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    23 Oct 2023, 8:58 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 8:58 p.m.
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    @JRs_Cigarette has written:

    Inventor of the usb connection system, everyone knows that.

    Organiser of my cable storage system, apparently.

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    Mangetout
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    23 Oct 2023, 9:04 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 9:04 p.m.
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    @JRs_Cigarette has written:
    @JimShady has written:

    Who's Heath Robinson when he's at home?

    Seriously never heard of him?

    William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.[1

    The English Rube Goldberg?

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    JimShady
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    23 Oct 2023, 9:05 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 9:05 p.m.
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    @JRs_Cigarette has written:
    @JimShady has written:

    Who's Heath Robinson when he's at home?

    Seriously never heard of him?

    William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.[1

    Really.

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    JRs_Cigarette
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    23 Oct 2023, 9:08 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 9:08 p.m.
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    @Mangetout has written:

    The English Rube Goldberg?

    To be fair, I've never heard of him.

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    Russ
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    23 Oct 2023, 9:11 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 9:11 p.m.
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    @JRs_Cigarette has written:
    @Mangetout has written:

    The English Rube Goldberg?

    To be fair, I've never heard of him.

    Whatever you do, don't go looking for Rube Goldberg machines on Youtube. That's a rabbit hole that will take you hours to climb out of.

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    Mangetout
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    23 Oct 2023, 9:27 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 9:27 p.m.
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    @JRs_Cigarette has written:
    @Mangetout has written:

    The English Rube Goldberg?

    To be fair, I've never heard of him.

    Crikey. "Wallace (sans Gromit)" then.

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    Resident_Alien
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    23 Oct 2023, 9:36 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 9:36 p.m.
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    Was wondering if anyone would jump in with that one. There was a Heath Robinson sketch in the cover of one of our maths/science textbooks in school, iirc.

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    Resident_Alien
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    23 Oct 2023, 9:37 p.m. 23 Oct 2023, 9:37 p.m.
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    @Russ has written:
    @JRs_Cigarette has written:
    @Mangetout has written:

    The English Rube Goldberg?

    To be fair, I've never heard of him.

    Whatever you do, don't go looking for Rube Goldberg machines on Youtube. That's a rabbit hole that will take you hours to climb out of.

    I like that OK Go have gone no small way to commemorating him in many of their videos.

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    Ingo
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    24 Oct 2023, 6:01 a.m. 24 Oct 2023, 6:01 a.m.
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    Has Russ found his little cable yet?

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    Russ
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    28 Oct 2023, 5:24 p.m. 28 Oct 2023, 5:24 p.m.
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    People complaining about kids from the poorer areas coming to the village to go trick or treating. I don't much like the annual festival of begging and extortion, but "my wealthy person treats are only for the wealthy children" makes me want to puke.

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    RC
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    28 Oct 2023, 5:27 p.m. 28 Oct 2023, 5:27 p.m.
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    Everyone knows you get the good shit from the posh sorts.

    Have they tried looking poor? Maybe they should make their homes look old and decrepit. Tell them to cover it in fake cobwebs, bats and spiders. That should do it…

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    Russ
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    28 Oct 2023, 5:33 p.m. 28 Oct 2023, 5:33 p.m.
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    Plenty of people have done that, but it's apparently for the benefit of the local children and not them poor ones from 10 minutes down the road, especially the ones with extra pigmentation.

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    Ingo
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    28 Oct 2023, 6:55 p.m. 28 Oct 2023, 6:55 p.m.
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    It's not until Tuesday, let's not go to early with our holier than thou rants. We'll be doing the "poppy mafia" speech on Wednesday, over a week ahead of schedule, at this rate.

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    Russ
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    3 Nov 2023, 1:44 p.m. 3 Nov 2023, 1:44 p.m.
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    Update: gave up and bought a new cable, which arrived this morning.

    Turns out I don't need it.

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    dj_bobbins
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    3 Nov 2023, 8:05 p.m. 3 Nov 2023, 8:05 p.m.
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    Leicester had a two minute silence tonight. One is no longer enough.

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