RMweb Premium melmerby Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2022 1 hour ago, steve1 said: Capitalism steve Communism (and a lot of other -isms) People who claim they want to be treated just like everyone else then Ghettoize themselves once they have been. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Electronic handbrakes. Something else to go wrong! My son is learning to drive with an instructor. He has recently inherited a 15 year old car. Took him out for a lesson, but couldn't get it off the drive. I said take the handbrake off, what's that was his reply. Driving Instructor has a car with an electronic handbrake. Hopeless. 2 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
britishcolumbian Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 3 hours ago, melmerby said: I ended up sprawled on the floor and her case bounced over a few times. She, rather than apologising then tut-tutted me. I hope her case ended up full of smashed valuable breakables. I would've started kicking her case then, you knock me over and you start complaining? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
britishcolumbian Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Mike Buckner said: It did save me a lot of money. I no longer had to pay the Butler to stand by the TV and change the channels. This is why children were invented. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2E Sub Shed Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 13 hours ago, 97406 said: I bought a full size steel spare wheel for mine. It lives in the boot and serves as a handy thing to put bags of shopping in to stop them falling over or sliding around. Added a spare wheel, (none-included), to the specification as an "accessory" for my company lease car and had to pay benefit in kind tax on the value as the delivery price was higher. Only time I used it, I drove a further 100 yards after changing it and had another flat, (knife cuts to both tyres), and had to be recovered anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2022 43 minutes ago, didcot said: Took him out for a lesson, but couldn't get it off the drive. I said take the handbrake off, what's that was his reply. Driving Instructor has a car with an electronic handbrake. Also hill start assist. You can't turn it off so how do they learn? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Exactly! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Putting an apple tree in the Garden of Eden was always going to end in tears... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2022 The time bandits that are forums…or whatever the plural is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 13 minutes ago, 30801 said: Also hill start assist. You can't turn it off so how do they learn? They don't. When I took my test I had to give hand signals including how indicate to a constable on point duty (a what??) your intention to turn left, as well as understanding signals given by a chap in change of a horse-drawn vehicle with his whip. My licence also qualified me to drive a "mowing machine controlled by a pedestrian" These days I believe if you only drive an automatic you can do a test which doesn't qualify you to drive a car with a manual gearbox. I expect there will soon be a third type of licence which says you can only drive an EV, and if Elon Musk stops wasting his time and money mucking about on Twitter, we might have another sort of licence to be a passenger in a car that drives you to work, parks itself and then comes and picks you up again at knocking off time. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: They don't. When I took my test I had to give hand signals including how indicate to a constable on point duty (a what??) your intention to turn left, as well as understanding signals given by a chap in change of a horse-drawn vehicle with his whip. My licence also qualified me to drive a "mowing machine controlled by a pedestrian" And I bet you remember the road sign for a "Tram Pinch"...😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: And I bet you remember the road sign for a "Tram Pinch"...😉 I remember it being in the Highway Code (HMSO, price 6d) but don't think I ever saw one for real. I don't remember the old trams other than at Blackpool, though I do remember trolleybuses in several towns. My father was knocked off his bike as a boy by a toff opening a car door, falling under a passing tram on the High Level Bridge in Newcastle and he had back injuries from the wrought ironwork between its axles. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2022 6 hours ago, 30801 said: Also hill start assist. You can't turn it off so how do they learn? It can be turned off in my car. When I was instructing, I did exactly that. And only told them about it once they'd learnt how to do hill starts properly. Showed them how it worked, then turned it off again. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2022 Worst invention - symmetric 3-way points. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, newbryford said: Worst invention - symmetric 3-way points. Double slips (currently building number 2 of 4 that I need) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2022 6 minutes ago, Dagworth said: Double slips (currently building number 2 of 4 that I need) Going O/T Crack on! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted November 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2022 Conductive rubber buttons on remote controls. They fail and due to construction cannot be repaired. Phone spell checkers, the worst there are, they spell check correct words to wrong ones. On a previous phone i changed the keyboard app so i was able to type SQL. Even worse when resl word replaced with slang. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Hornby steam loco tender drives (not the early 70's silver seal ones, they were excellent). Brit15 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted November 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2022 Anything that relies on numberplate recognition and requires online payment🥵 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted November 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2022 I'd be almost tempted to say "the transistor" - without that there wouldn't be a great deal of things that I really don't like around. But then there wouldn't be some I do. Most mornings I think "alarm clocks" (in any way, shape or form). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 1 hour ago, APOLLO said: Hornby steam loco tender drives (not the early 70's silver seal ones, they were excellent). Brit15 Well, the Silver Seal motors were made by Fleischmann! Hornby tried to copy them and they used inferior materials and production and guess what? They weren’t so good! Then (I guess), Lima copied again and made an even worse job through even cheaper materials. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted November 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2022 DCC... [Ducks beneath the desk] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 37 minutes ago, John M Upton said: DCC... [Ducks beneath the desk] Not as bad as earlier systems, like Zero One.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Karaoke - Japan's revenge for the atom bombs! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted November 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2022 22 hours ago, Hroth said: The first TV remotes were tethered to the telly by a length of cable, which snaked across the floor to the owner of the remote. You had to watch where you put your feet... Modern ones are bad, but in a different way! But without the remote these days, you can't really control a modern TV. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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