Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind

[Pross]

Annoyance at more absolute BS regarding a astronmoical 'event'. This time I've seen numerous posts online about the 'rare Black Moon'. There's basically nothing to see, it's just a new moon like you get every month but someone has now decided to give a stupid name to the third new moon in a season that contains four of them, that's literally all that makes it different as most seasons only have three.

 

[icowden]

Annoyance at more absolute BS regarding a astronmoical 'event'. This time I've seen numerous posts online about the 'rare Black Moon'. There's basically nothing to see, it's just a new moon like you get every month but someone has now decided to give a stupid name to the third new moon in a season that contains four of them, that's literally all that makes it different as most seasons only have three.

Yes, but saying it's a new moon isn't going to generate clicks, is it? And then the advertisers won't pay for the article!
The Eye has an article about the Mirror. Every Mirror news story now has a hyperlink sentence about 3 sentences in which starts "this comes after..." and links to another news article which is completely unrelated and has nothing to do with the story!

I read an article about the tragic death of a young girl in Iceland when she and her parents ignored the warning signs on the black sand beach and went for a paddle (the beach has powerful sneaker waves - if one gets you you are dragged out to sea in arctic water - you live for minutes. But this comes after kitesurfer sees stick in ocean with something alive at the end of it.

Of course, I was intrigued to see what the link was. Why would someone be kitesurfing in arctic waters? DId they manage to save someone from drowning off the coast of Iceland?

No. They were in Malta and rescued a Sea Turtle.

 

[BoldonLad]

It will be a sad day when Louise Lear is no longer on my TV screen because of AI!

I am sure AI will be able to produce a suitable hologram with the necessary attributes

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Language evolves etc, but calling the bloke a fisher just sounds wrong. Then they mention the 'mother ship', but that's in quotes. Bah humbug to them all.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...harles-jailed-role-18m-cocaine-smuggling-plot

 

[secretsqirrel]

The front page of the Telegraph this morning. Alli P dialling up the lyrical in her moment of glory. Lol, I nearly did

“So, first impressions of this notorious, much-demonised figure? Well, she is both very tall and delicately pretty with a heart-shaped face and liquid-chocolate eyes although carrying more weight than she'd like after a grim prison diet ("They can't afford protein, so we got lots of wedges and pasta 7. Her complexion is blotchy, light-deprived and, with a pang. I think why, it is untouched by our beautiful summer.”

 

[Pross]

Is she not going n breach of her licence doing that interview (or has she waited for it to end)?

 

[C R]

The front page of the Telegraph this morning. Alli P dialling up the lyrical in her moment of glory. Lol, I nearly did

“So, first impressions of this notorious, much-demonised figure? Well, she is both very tall and delicately pretty with a heart-shaped face and liquid-chocolate eyes although carrying more weight than she'd like after a grim prison diet ("They can't afford protein, so we got lots of wedges and pasta 7. Her complexion is blotchy, light-deprived and, with a pang. I think why, it is untouched by our beautiful summer.”

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[Bazzer]

The front page of the Telegraph this morning. Alli P dialling up the lyrical in her moment of glory. Lol, I nearly did

....although carrying more weight than she'd like after a grim prison diet ("They can't afford protein, so we got lots of wedges and pasta 7.

Pretty simple answer to that I would have thought. You don't put the food in your mouth. That relieves both some of the "grim" prison diet and stops you developing into a small moon.

 

[Psamathe]

Something I find daft but doesn't actually impact me. Around me Highways have been adding 30 limits - and they are sensible limits in sensible places. Daft thing is in several places the end of the new 30 limit has a 40 or national speed limit sign then few hundred yards down the road it's back to 30. Why bother with the extra signage and have drivers accelerating only to be braking a few seconds later.

Another 2 instances today on my short shopping run: A sensible 40 limit for a few miles ends to national speed limit (60) and ¼ mile later into a sensible 30 entering a village. Why not just leave the 40 and drop to 30. Another single track lane and new 30 at one end past some houses then signs increasing to 40 and ¼ mile later back to 30 as you enter next village. Daft, leave the limit at 30!

 

[Ian H]

Something I find daft but doesn't actually impact me. Around me Highways have been adding 30 limits - and they are sensible limits in sensible places. Daft thing is in several places the end of the new 30 limit has a 40 or national speed limit sign then few hundred yards down the road it's back to 30. Why bother with the extra signage and have drivers accelerating only to be braking a few seconds later.

Another 2 instances today on my short shopping run: A sensible 40 limit for a few miles ends to national speed limit (60) and ¼ mile later into a sensible 30 entering a village. Why not just leave the 40 and drop to 30. Another single track lane and new 30 at one end past some houses then signs increasing to 40 and ¼ mile later back to 30 as you enter next village. Daft, leave the limit at 30!

I suspect it's because the criteria for imposing any given lower limit are specific, and the intervening stretches don't meet them.

 

[Pross]

Something I find daft but doesn't actually impact me. Around me Highways have been adding 30 limits - and they are sensible limits in sensible places. Daft thing is in several places the end of the new 30 limit has a 40 or national speed limit sign then few hundred yards down the road it's back to 30. Why bother with the extra signage and have drivers accelerating only to be braking a few seconds later.

Another 2 instances today on my short shopping run: A sensible 40 limit for a few miles ends to national speed limit (60) and ¼ mile later into a sensible 30 entering a village. Why not just leave the 40 and drop to 30. Another single track lane and new 30 at one end past some houses then signs increasing to 40 and ¼ mile later back to 30 as you enter next village. Daft, leave the limit at 30!

There’s a section of road that runs past my back garden that goes 20-30-20-40-20-40-20 in the space of 2.5 miles. I think the longest it stays in one limit is 3/4 mile. It then reaches a roundabout on dual carriageway with 70 speed limit (I think there’s a buffer of a short 30 too) the other side of the roundabout there was a short 30 buffer than back to 20 but they’ve done a recent review and changed the 20 back to 30.

 

[Psamathe]

I suspect it's because the criteria for imposing any given lower limit are specific, and the intervening stretches don't meet them.

Maybe the "criteria" should include something about where the distance between two separate limits is less than eg 1 mile the road between will be limited to lowest speed limit (or will not be higher than either of the two limited sections or something sensible).

 

[Pross]

I suspect it's because the criteria for imposing any given lower limit are specific, and the intervening stretches don't meet them.

Yeah, I’ve worked on jobs where we’ve tried reducing speed limits and it needs police support. Their policy is that the limit needs to be self-enforcing.

 

[BoldonLad]

Something I find daft but doesn't actually impact me. Around me Highways have been adding 30 limits - and they are sensible limits in sensible places. Daft thing is in several places the end of the new 30 limit has a 40 or national speed limit sign then few hundred yards down the road it's back to 30. Why bother with the extra signage and have drivers accelerating only to be braking a few seconds later.

Another 2 instances today on my short shopping run: A sensible 40 limit for a few miles ends to national speed limit (60) and ¼ mile later into a sensible 30 entering a village. Why not just leave the 40 and drop to 30. Another single track lane and new 30 at one end past some houses then signs increasing to 40 and ¼ mile later back to 30 as you enter next village. Daft, leave the limit at 30!

Not sure what "your area" is, but, I was recently driving on A47 and A17 in Norfolk area, I noticed similar, and, bizarrely, at some junctions, there was a brief (say less than 1000 metre) section of dual carriageway, with road markings limiting each carriageway to one lane, and, an INCREASE in speed limit to 60mph sign.

 

[Psamathe]

Yeah, I’ve worked on jobs where we’ve tried reducing speed limits and it needs police support. Their policy is that the limit needs to be self-enforcing.

(My bold) You mean like mobile phone use laws?