GRIPES

[spacesailor]

TV 

It's Great for the ' hearing impired ' . ( closed captions ).

Radio has long gone past the dinosaur age . We no longer turn on the car radio ,OR even ' pop in a tape " .

I do occasionally listen to an ' audible book ' , but not to often , as the wife likes to find those funny fault noises , just to annoy me .

spacesailor

 

[facthunter]

After a while your wife turns into your mother who corrects you when necessary and that's all of the time.    Nev

[red750]

7 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

 

It's Great for the ' hearing impired ' . ( closed captions ).

Spacey, you've seen my complaints about 'closed captions'. Completely useless. Particularly news and live TV. A bit better on pre-recorded stuff.

 

One from the other morning.    Audio: Ice Cream.     Closed Caption: I scream.

 

Captions 25 words behind the audio, stop halfway through a sentance because they can't catch up. Lose the point of the story. Caption still on screen 20 seconds into commercial.

[octave]

For amusing subtitles watch this video and turn on closed captions.   The people are speaking another language however the closed captions are trying to make their words into English words.  There are gems such as "first cinema man you know that I do see a plastic mighty king" and "about the toughness in delegation of vintage flopsy chat engine three"

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Pretty nonchallant flight crew. Did well.

[Old Koreelah]

I couldn’t find any posts on here about that mongel bloke Murphy.

He deserves a section of his own.

 

This arvo I descovered a few more of his vindictive Laws.

 

When you carefully fit a new cut-off disk to your Dremel, don all necessary PPE, then crawl into position ready to perform delicate surgery under a machine, you will accidentally bump said disk, only slightly, but enough to break it. You will then have to grovel out from under the machine, remove PPE and go and find a new disk.

 

When you get setup with a functioning disk and are finally in position to start cutting, the sun will miraculously shine directly into your face, making it impossible to see what the hell you are doing.

 

When finally finished, while clambering out from your uncomfortable work position, your hand will rest on the hot cutting surface of the tool you just put down.

[facthunter]

Emergency items are supposed to be able to be done by memory. IF you're shutting down a motor you need a clearance as a [priority and a pretty good idea how far you need to descend as a result of the loss of power. before you start shutting the engine down which they showed no real haste in doing. so it must have been precautionary. Noone was really watching the flying much and the airbus cockpit procedures are a bit of a ONE man band. I was mainly trying to decipher the language. The third crew member and the CM2 should have handled the emergency and the other concentrate on the flying.. I'd have to watch it again a few times but I don't have the time . You got a view of fuel being dumped and you have to delve into that to do it right. It relates to your landing weight and you'd be in the poo if you dumped too much.  and you're supposed to get a clearance for that too .Nev

[octave]

 

18 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Emergency items are supposed to be able to be done by memory.

 

I have seen this video with English subtitles. It was not a dramatic engine failure but an engine starting to overheat.   A lot of the discussion is with engineers on the ground and they are deciding whether a precautionary engine shutdown is required.   

[Marty_d]

8 hours ago, Old Koreelah said:

I couldn’t find any posts on here about that mongel bloke Murphy.

He deserves a section of his own.

 

This arvo I descovered a few more of his vindictive Laws.

 

When you carefully fit a new cut-off disk to your Dremel, don all necessary PPE, then crawl into position ready to perform delicate surgery under a machine, you will accidentally bump said disk, only slightly, but enough to break it. You will then have to grovel out from under the machine, remove PPE and go and find a new disk.

 

When you get setup with a functioning disk and are finally in position to start cutting, the sun will miraculously shine directly into your face, making it impossible to see what the hell you are doing.

 

When finally finished, while clambering out from your uncomfortable work position, your hand will rest on the hot cutting surface of the tool you just put down.

Plus when you go to buy more cutting disks they cost a fortune. 

[spacesailor]

Those cheap one keep breaking ! , But of course you know that 

   NOW .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

With a four engined plane shutting down an engine is no big deal. You have to reduce altitude (straight away) and you will arrive a little later wherever you are going. Where you DO go you will require the engine be repaired or replaced before you can take people anywhere. Nev

[octave]

This aircraft had departed Zurich for Shanghai. I am wondering if it turned back to Zurich due to better repair facilities. 

[facthunter]

Probably decided by the OPS management people on the ground which is fair enough as they pay your salary and it's not an increased risk. Dumping fuel requires consultation with ATC unless it's an emergency where you'd still notify them that you are doing it..  Nev

[willedoo]

My gripe for the day is false reporting, or in some cases, reporting that jumps the gun and broadcasts a viewpoint based on assumptions.  The case in question is independent senator Lydia Thorpe reported as been thrown to the ground by police at an anti-trans rally. Some are reporting her as being pushed to the ground, others say she was pulled to the ground.

 

I've watched the video and freeze framed it several times and can't see any wrongdoing by the police officer. She barged into where a speaker was delivering an address, then gets in a tangle with someone in civilian clothes; I don't know whether he's a plain clothes policeman or a security guy. She's wearing high heels on a fairly rough grass surface, and when she starts to go down, it looks like the uniformed officer is trying to break her fall. I guess he's the one they are accusing of pushing her to the ground, but after freeze framing the video and viewing it in steps, it looks to me like he's trying to help her if anything. A lady would struggle to walk in high heels on that surface at the best of times.

[willedoo]

Note also that there's video from different viewpoints on the news. It looks to me like the police officer has placed his hands on her shoulders, then tried to turn her around away from the conflict point. In my opinion, it looks like her high heels have tripped her up while that was happening and she went down. Looking at it carefully, it doesn't look at any time like the policeman applied any downward pressure to cause her to go down.

[Jerry_Atrick]

One of my gripes is the endless unproductive meetings we seem to have these days. Who would have thought it was originally an espionage tactic?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2023/03/26/are-cia-sabotage-tactics-ruining-your-team-meetings/?utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&sh=324daedd649b

 

[willedoo]

It reminds me of some of the useless inductions I've had to sit through. One of the best was a half day course that culminated in receiving a permit card that permitted us to apply for a hot work permit. Essentially a permit to apply for a permit.

[Jerry_Atrick]

These days, when we find something wrong at work, we have to come up with a plan to come up with a plan to resolve.

 

You couldn't read about it.

[old man emu]

8 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

endless unproductive meetings

Fully agree. And it doesn't only apply to business meetings. It's worse with club meetings.  If there is an agenda set, it takes a very strong Chair to keep to it, but since the participants are there voluntarily, the Chair can't be too strict. As a result meetings lose any formality and become dinner table chats. As a result the aims of meetings called to resolve problems and develop plans are often not met in a timely fashion.

 

But that's one edge of the sword. Without meetings you don't have a club, or more importantly, you don't have 

From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

 

And for those members who do not attend meetings and participate in the running of the club or organization:

Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

[onetrack]

[octave]

ah the unnecessary meeting.

 

 

[old man emu]

 

Nowadays it appears that a man's word is a prelude to a scam.

 

In case you missed it, I'm putting on an bit of an event on 20th May 2023. So I've got to advertise it widely and I do it by sending a flyer to aero clubs and flying schools by email. I find very many of these organizations don't provide their email address on their website, or FB page. They either only have a form within the website for you to put in your details and request, or if on FB, simply a phone number.

 

So when I contact them by their email form or text to the phone number, I have to try to convince the recipient that I'm not Sanjit or Mngabi trying on a scam. And I wonder how many of those websites scan emails for scammer words and shoot the email off to Junk, never to be seen by the intended recipient.

 

It seems that we have become a society that expects the next bloke to always be out to rip us off.

 

And look where the term "rip off" comes from: "an act of fraud, a swindle," 1969, from verbal phrase rip off "to steal or rob" (c. 1967) in African-American vernacular.

[facthunter]

RIP OFF generally relates to being overcharged?   Nev .

[Jerry_Atrick]

Gripe of the Easter holidays.. In-laws.. Not the ones you are thinking.. Mother and step-faterh in law are the bees-knees., The sisters in law... or.. as I prefer to call them.. the twisted sisters. There are three siblings and when they are together for a period of time and intoxication, it kicks off big time. About 25 years ago, the firt time I met them, we went to one of their abodes for a dinner. After a crodial evening, and food, and wine, the lads went tot he local. About 10 minutes later, from inside the pub which had quite thick stone walls and double glazing, we could hear these women arguing. The initiated boyfriends of the other two informed me it was the sisters, of which my partner was one, had kicked off on some argument about their childhood. It was there I coined the nicname, the twisted sisters.

 

When only two of them are together, it is nice and peaceful. But when they get together and drink, it was WW3. But, some time ago, there was a split and they sort of went their own ways, and occasionally meet up for occasions. This Easter just gone was one of them..

 

My patrtner's mother asked if we minded her and her husband coming to us for Easter. I would never refuse.. as I mentioned, we get on very well.. like a house of fire, so to speak. But suddenly, we are accomodating one of the sisters over the whole break, and one for Easter Sunday, the other is coming over. Neither my partner nor myself had spoken to them at all. They simply informed their mother.

 

Not only that, the one that was coming over for the lunch, announced when she arrived, that we had to start eating by 3pm becausxe she had to leave early! So, she invites herself over and then stipulates when we have to eat. Unf, I was in the pub at the time with my son, sippig a lime and soda (sort of like lemon line and soda, minus the Angostora Bitters) after a bicycle ride, and who turns up.. The twisted sisters minus my parnter, and their partners. My son and I quickly make our escapes and when we get home, my partner and her mum are there cooking away while these "people" are having a drink at the pub because they wanted dinner at a specific time.  BTW, we were only haveing a drink because iut was warm and we were thirsty - no alcohol, and when they arrived, we were finishing up.

 

We ride home and who is in the kitchen cooking? My partner and her mum. I was gobsmacked. We had enough booze for everyone to have a drink with them; They invite themselves, set a time limit so my partner and her mum couldn't get to the pub to enjoy the day, and then take off! Effin in-law siblings. that is my gripe.

 

I did get some revenge.. When we started to eat, I made a point of raising my glass and toasting the partner and mother, ".. dong a great job meeting their stipulated time to eat while others were at the pub!"

 

Quite a few eyes were lowered.. Entitled a$$holes..

 

My other gripe is my partner gets very upset every time, but doesn't stand up to it and tell them to eff off when they ask for anything.

 

[nomadpete]

Why, oh why, did you have to throw a hand grenade in? (Sarky toast)