oldwheels
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Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
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Harold Steptoe
classic33
Leg End Member
He were buried a few years ago. Lived on the street behind mine.John Logie Baird ?
That brings to mind this sketch:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X40CQIh6q5Y&pp=ygUTZnJ5IGFuZCBsYXVyaWUgdmV0cw%3D%3D
Windle
Über Member
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- Burnthouses
Auto Standby on modern electronic devices, specifically our TV. After it's been on a while it flashes a little message up saying 'as no button has been pressed for a long time Auto Standby mode will be activated, press any button to cancel' despite the fact that the TV is clearly in use!
I know I don't actually watch the TV channels on the set, it's used via the recorder box or streaming thingy, with the volume controlled with the sound system, but surely it can tell it's still in use? I'll decide when to switch the TV off thanks, so GTF with your ruddy eco friendly, energy saving bollox. It consumes the same amount of energy as one of those tiny lightbulbs that great aunt Millie had in her china cabinet in 1973 anyway.
The ridiculous irony is that we've only had this TV about six months, it replaced a previous one that expired at less than two years old!
If you want to be eco friendly make stuff that bloody lasts you cretins
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I know I don't actually watch the TV channels on the set, it's used via the recorder box or streaming thingy, with the volume controlled with the sound system, but surely it can tell it's still in use? I'll decide when to switch the TV off thanks, so GTF with your ruddy eco friendly, energy saving bollox. It consumes the same amount of energy as one of those tiny lightbulbs that great aunt Millie had in her china cabinet in 1973 anyway.
The ridiculous irony is that we've only had this TV about six months, it replaced a previous one that expired at less than two years old!
If you want to be eco friendly make stuff that bloody lasts you cretins
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mistyoptic
Vintage
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- A parallel reality
Auto Standby on modern electronic devices, specifically our TV. After it's been on a while it flashes a little message up saying 'as no button has been pressed for a long time Auto Standby mode will be activated, press any button to cancel' despite the fact that the TV is clearly in use!
I know I don't actually watch the TV channels on the set, it's used via the recorder box or streaming thingy, with the volume controlled with the sound system, but surely it can tell it's still in use? I'll decide when to switch the TV off thanks, so GTF with your ruddy eco friendly, energy saving bollox. It consumes the same amount of energy as one of those tiny lightbulbs that great aunt Millie had in her china cabinet in 1973 anyway.
The ridiculous irony is that we've only had this TV about six months, it replaced a previous one that expired at less than two years old!
If you want to be eco friendly make stuff that bloody lasts you cretins
Can you delve deep into the scary settings menu and turn the power saving off?
Yes, that's what I thought, it's simple to do but why spoil a good opportunity for a rant 😉
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
My TV (LG) does the same and I can not find a setting that will override it.
Windle
Über Member
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- Burnthouses
I'll have a look, although I'm normally pretty savvy with such things so I'm surprised I already haven't
.Alex321
Guru
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Unless it has a camera, not really. It can tell something is still showing, but it can't tell whether you might have fallen asleep on the settee, or left the room "for a moment" then never come back because you forgot it was on.
But I have always turned that setting off on my devices - I haven't yet had one where you can't, apart from phones.
The ridiculous irony is that we've only had this TV about six months, it replaced a previous one that expired at less than two years old!
If you want to be eco friendly make stuff that bloody lasts you cretins
We have two TV sets, one bough around 12-14 years ago, the other was a few years more recent, but still probably 8-10 years ago. The first was bought to replace an old CRT set that we had been using with a set top box for digital. The 2nd was just to have a TV in another room so we could watch different things when we wanted to.
Neither look like expiring any time soon.
The one that used to mildly irritate me was 'Sir Ming' for Sir Menzies Campbell.
Related to the dead pet grumble and apologies for this being quite an earnest post, but the use of the euphemism "journey" for things that don't involve the movement of a person from one location to another really boils my wee.
For the past 6-7 or so years Ma B and me have had to deal with Pa B's relatively early and aggressive Alzheimer's diagnosis. He spent the last year of his life in a secure unit after being sectioned, so you get the idea. During that time, certain organisations and individuals insisted that Pa B was on a "journey" with Alzheimers, like it was all a jolly day out and, if it rained a bit we'd all make the best of it. This isn't Personal Matters so I'll leave it there, but the phrase was generally used by those who provided the least actual practical help of dealing with the issues we faced. He wasn't on a "journey", he was dying in a particularly cruel way.
Sorry, I've just been patronised by someone who used this phrase and lost my guano a little bit.
For the past 6-7 or so years Ma B and me have had to deal with Pa B's relatively early and aggressive Alzheimer's diagnosis. He spent the last year of his life in a secure unit after being sectioned, so you get the idea. During that time, certain organisations and individuals insisted that Pa B was on a "journey" with Alzheimers, like it was all a jolly day out and, if it rained a bit we'd all make the best of it. This isn't Personal Matters so I'll leave it there, but the phrase was generally used by those who provided the least actual practical help of dealing with the issues we faced. He wasn't on a "journey", he was dying in a particularly cruel way.
Sorry, I've just been patronised by someone who used this phrase and lost my guano a little bit.
Windle
Über Member
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- Burnthouses
The TV we had before the short lived one must have been about seven years old when it packed up. It first started to go at the screen bottom so ended up in the garage in front of the turbo until it completely buggered up. The crappy one was from a big company beginning with H and looking at reviews afterwards their TV's seem to have a bit of a reputation. I do hope their trains are better built.
What I was mainly ranting about was the pathetic attempt to save the planet with auto standby and such things when the huge environmental cost of making and shipping a new TV to replace a poorly built one is conveniently ignored in the race to make and flog more stuff. It's about time the environmentalists took aim at this sort of stuff.
They do try, but the massive companies who build so many things with 'designed / built in obsolescence' only pay lip service at best because they don't want to dent their profits or shareholder's payouts.
