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Post by André on Feb 4, 2024 13:16:44 GMT
At the fear of offending: - People the fit picture rail around the room for decor & not it's intended purpose. ie putting it up then mounting picture with modern picture hangers! Idea back then were meant for a practical reason & yes they were clever, these days it's all show and no it's not clever.
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Post by André on Feb 4, 2024 13:30:35 GMT
Another along the same lines is Dado rail, why do people fit it so high! It was basically intended to protect you wall from mainly chair backs. There is no standardised height but i generally line it up with the middle rail of say a Victorian four Panel door *Click on da Pic*
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Post by André on Feb 4, 2024 13:36:00 GMT
& People that live in house built past the 1930's that fit those things around the room. I always see the Practicality in things but each to their own i suppose.
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Post by André on Feb 4, 2024 14:11:30 GMT
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Post by André on Feb 4, 2024 14:16:00 GMT
Moving away from Home. One of my top ten Pet hates is the strangely de-rigueur act between Audio people of the Hi-Fi rack in the centre, Speaker each side. You would have thought a Symmetry nut would go for that but i just cannot stand it nor can i be doing with the justification of why.
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Post by dsjr on Feb 4, 2024 16:31:19 GMT
Andr'e mate, many 'audiophiles' worship their sound system as if it's a shrine and set it up accordingly, turntable on top and each item lovingly displayed underneath in the rack. Real silly eejits have cable lifters on show to support their hosepipe speaker cables and so on and so forth.. None of my setups were done like this although the telly and cabinet with AV stuff in it has to go in between so not sonically ideal, but I play this system so rarely now it doesn't matter so much any more like it once did (the big ATC's had a TV in between but they didn't seem to care
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Post by André on Feb 29, 2024 8:29:09 GMT
Boys & Girls in their 20s comming on TV like they have lived giving people advice. Gets up my back.Trouble with young uns these days they think they know it all, they wouldnt know the first thing about struggle & hardship if it hit them in the teeth.
25 year old agony aunt, give me a ferkin break.
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Post by André on Feb 29, 2024 8:33:17 GMT
Social Media & the shocking amount of begging that goes on so much so the DWP needs to open their eyes to.
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Post by André on Feb 29, 2024 8:39:22 GMT
Internet. Everyone uses it, only because mostly people are forced to, but its one of the worse things imho.
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Post by dsjr on Feb 29, 2024 11:09:55 GMT
The number of SUV vehicles in this area, often driven by oldies like me, made worse at our local hospital as the spaces were the minimum width possible and said SUV's took up ALL the space within.
It took some care to find a space to park our little jalopy so there was minimum risk of the hulk next door banging ours when entering/exiting.
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Post by André on Feb 29, 2024 12:40:33 GMT
We had our pristine car hit by a SUV on the second day we got it.
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Post by dsjr on Feb 29, 2024 16:06:01 GMT
Another hate - GP surgeries either so overworked/under-staffed or just plain lazy that the patient seems to come last in their own self protection/self interest In my day, we complained because appointments were becoming a few days in advance by which time one could be dead or better! Our GP surgery shut and all but bolted its doors over Covid with large abruptly toned notices on the doors forbidding entry unless you were on literally at death's door due to NON Covid reasons!! Son had a run-in with vomiting 'coffee granules (blood)' needing hospital treatment. Phoning surgery is useless as while waiting, they repeatedly ask callers to use 'Ask My GP' - I desperately needed to SPEAK to someone and best we could manage was to get the receptionist (sorry, 'Care Coordinator') to pass it along to a 'healthcare professional' who never came back. two hours later he's still vomiting and in great distress, so we took him to A&E (we've subsequently been told by senior nursing staff in his ward to do this straight off and avoid the GP altogether!) He was in nearly a fortnight (Oesphagitis and a Hernia) and discharged last Friday afternoon. He's been put on a daily tablet for life to help stomach acid-reflux and needs more as the hospital only provides a few week's supply. Nearly one week on the GP surgery HAVEN'T processed his discharge notes, only want the 'Ask My GP' online service to be used for 'urgent' needs (so feck off if you're not seriously ill) but did lower themselves to reply this time, stating his discharge notes are due to be 'done' on the 6th March and his repeat prescription will then go on his record along with the regular T1 diabetic stuff (needles, test strips and two lots of insulin pens). I gather our GP surgery isn't the only one a bit like this. How's it with you lot further north? We always said the Suffolk is like a warm cozy duvet, but living here for twenty years this August, it really is as though everyone's all but falling asleep as they dream through life. Not so bad in Bury St Edmunds though (we love Bury, but it's not by the sea)
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Post by André on Feb 29, 2024 17:45:03 GMT
Aye steady as it goes with Doctors, Not got a single rush in them.
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Post by André on Apr 9, 2024 21:23:42 GMT
New one that gets me two bit news interviewers constantly confrontational with MP's in the interview. It bugs me because not only do they look stupid my attitude is they should be neutral.
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Post by Westie on Apr 10, 2024 17:20:07 GMT
How have I missed this entire thread? No idea whatsoever, but I had to laugh at the first two which I could’ve written. I do like the proportions that dado can add to a room if done right, but not half way up the bleeding wall FFS.
Picture rail doesn’t sit well with me because I think it has a negative effect on proportions and I’ve yet to see anybody hang pictures off it.
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