Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind

[briantrumpet]

Over egging the significance of things. I think this week we've had to re write our understanding of human evolution and the domestication of cats. Now we have to re-write our understanding of Roman Britain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk8j1gkxelo

I am also irritated by the constant inappropriate comparisons to Pompeii. It's nothing like Pompeii. It's less like Pompeii than Scara Brae or Sutton Hoo. And they are nothing like Pompeii.

But they are all Quite Old.

 

[First Aspect]

But they are all Quite Old.

I'm expecting at the end of the day for it to be the outlines of some walls, and nowhere near as well preserved as Kylie Minogue.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Over egging the significance of things

Isn't that what archeologists do? Digging stuff up and over egging it's significance.
Without the over egging where would the next bit of funding come from?

 

[briantrumpet]

Isn't that what archeologists do? Digging stuff up and over egging it's significance.
Without the over egging where would the next bit of funding come from?

Academics would never do that to secure funding.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Over egging the significance of things. I think this week we've had to re write our understanding of human evolution and the domestication of cats. Now we have to re-write our understanding of Roman Britain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk8j1gkxelo

I am also irritated by the constant inappropriate comparisons to Pompeii. It's nothing like Pompeii. It's less like Pompeii than Scara Brae or Sutton Hoo. And they are nothing like Pompeii.

Over-egging the significance of things accurately describes your post.

He referred to our understanding of “Wales in the Romano-British period” not our overall understanding of Roman Britain.

“It had the potential to be "Port Talbot's Pompeii", he suggested, playfully referring to the ancient Roman city preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
A lot of archaeologists get wound up by connections made with Pompeii”

 

[Pross]

Isn't that what archeologists do? Digging stuff up and over egging it's significance.
Without the over egging where would the next bit of funding come from?

There's also that bit where they then claim to understand what was going on at the time based on a few broken pots and turn it into historical fact.

 

[briantrumpet]

There's also that bit where they then claim to understand what was going on at the time based on a few broken pots and turn it into historical fact.

I was at a party ages ago, asked what this young woman did, and she said "I'm an archeologist". When the only response I could come up with was "Oh, that's interesting!", she said very dismissively "Yeah, everyone says that", and that was that

 

[PurplePenguin]

I was at a party ages ago, asked what this young woman did, and she said "I'm an archeologist". When the only response I could come up with was "Oh, that's interesting!", she said very dismissively "Yeah, everyone says that", and that was that

Next time ask her if her life is in ruins.

 

[briantrumpet]

Next time ask her if her life is in ruins.

Can I send the medical bills to you?

 

[Ianonabike]

Seemingly trivial? Yes
Emotion: Idle curiosity.

Does anybody know what went wrong here? https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/new-chain-slipping.309424/

 

[First Aspect]

Seemingly trivial? Yes
Emotion: Idle curiosity.

Does anybody know what went wrong here? https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/new-chain-slipping.309424/

Didn't it get solved by page 2? Or are you asking how if failed to run to 20 pages of nuanced drive chain speakery like most threads of this type do.

 

[Ianonabike]

Just wondering why it got locked and an apparently new member went Guest over a seemingly pedestrian thread.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Can I send the medical bills to you?

I thought you liked a good pun. Got to risk it for a biscuit.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Just wondering why it got locked and an apparently new member went Guest over a seemingly pedestrian thread.

As the penultimate poster was a bit surly I'd guess that the OP asked a moderator to close the thread, perhaps deciding CC wasn't for him if that's how people were going to respond.

 

[Psamathe]

The new Met Office desktop version. The current one gets lots of information in one view; the new 'beta' version, well, not so much. Suffice to say, yes, I have left feedback, including the observation that they are *still* not publishing the confidence rating which I know they calculate for each forecast.

Their newly released iPhone app is a complete disaster. Main location screen is 40% just some dump animated picture with absolutely no information. Very very buggy (pre-alpha though on full public release)

No way to change any of the units eg default wind speed is mph and can't be changed to knots (a significant number of people use knots and as I'm from a sailing background I know knots and no appreciation of mph for wind).

eg Main location screen; "Good use of small screen space?"

The screen has "Light Rain" in big text. Do we really want half the screen a grey area with a few white streaks? Does this really enhance understanding?