Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Chris_SVS]

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[Sir Trev]

I did one of those lateral flow self tests and now my throat hurts. Must have been a bit too vigorous with the swab. Eight more minutes until I can count the currently negative result.

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by Seeker

My gripe is the fact that the UK allows anyone in the world to buy a domain name that sounds like it's a UK company.
https://www.laptop-battery.org.uk/

This company ships its batteries (or at least the one I ordered) from Hong Kong. Had I checked on the "contact us" page I would have spotted it and ordered from elsewhere. Estimated time to arrive is another 2 weeks and it's already been over 1 week.

well, the battery arrived and...

...it doesn't work.

It won't power up the laptop, when the charger is plugged in it says it has 88% charge but the charger doesn't get warm and never changes from 88%. If they've followed the same colour code on their battery as Lenovo then they have the wires crossed. I'd need to cut the wires and cross connect them to fix it since the pins aren't removable from the mini plug and since I don't know what the pin out is anyway, it would be a gamble so I'm a bit stuck.
I'm sure this is why China's GDP is so high - you have to order two to get one that works.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Chris_SVS

My mate called in on his new to him Africa Twin, I now want to change bike but know that I really shouldn't.

I know somebody who bought a brand new Africa Twin 2 or 3 years ago and he had a lot of trouble with it (heated grips and wheels I think he mentioned, might have been other things as well, can't remember exactly ) that the dealer couldn't fix without it being sent back to Honda. I assume he got it all sorted out eventually by Honda. He was loaned a Honda CB1100 while it was away - he didn't sound particularly impressed with the CB1100 when I asked him, but maybe just not his style of bike.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Seeker

well, the battery arrived and...

...it doesn't work.

It won't power up the laptop, when the charger is plugged in it says it has 88% charge but the charger doesn't get warm and never changes from 88%. If they've followed the same colour code on their battery as Lenovo then they have the wires crossed. I'd need to cut the wires and cross connect them to fix it since the pins aren't removable from the mini plug and since I don't know what the pin out is anyway, it would be a gamble so I'm a bit stuck.
I'm sure this is why China's GDP is so high - you have to order two to get one that works.

I got a battery on ebay for my laptop but it hasn't lasted that long, I have to plug in to mains to use laptop for more than a few minutes.

[DJ123]

People who post unhelpful answers on questions on either FB groups, Amazon, or other sites.

I don't understand someone who reads a question, know they have no helpful advise at all & yet still decides they need to let that person know they don't know. I mean, what is the point posting; 'i don't know/ no idea/ sorry can't help.

Do these people not realise this is the internet and the person can't see you read their question, so they're not expecting you to answer regardless whether you have knowledge or not.

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by DJ123

People who post unhelpful answers on questions on either FB groups, Amazon, or other sites.

I don't understand someone who reads a question, know they have no helpful advise at all & yet still decides they need to let that person know they don't know. I mean, what is the point posting; 'i don't know/ no idea/ sorry can't help.

Do these people not realise this is the internet and the person can't see you read their question, so they're not expecting you to answer regardless whether you have knowledge or not.

In medieval times a village would typically be 50-100 people and one village idiot.

As we progressed and built bigger towns then the pub would be able to serve several hundreds of people but sat in the corner would be a guy who "knows things" and will tell anyone in earshot - the incarnation of the village idiot. We were relatively safe because the village idiots couldn't easily talk to each other.

Then came the internet and Facebook. Bam! All the village idiots in the world can now chat, build conspiracies and offer advice. The voice of reason, logic and common sense is drowned out in a rising babble of nonsense given equal airtime to plausibility and the truth.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Seeker

In medieval times a village would typically be 50-100 people and one village idiot.

As we progressed and built bigger towns then the pub would be able to serve several hundreds of people but sat in the corner would be a guy who "knows things" and will tell anyone in earshot - the incarnation of the village idiot. We were relatively safe because the village idiots couldn't easily talk to each other.

Then came the internet and Facebook. Bam! All the village idiots in the world can now chat, build conspiracies and offer advice. The voice of reason, logic and common sense is drowned out in a rising babble of nonsense given equal airtime to plausibility and the truth.

What, only one village idiot in the pub ?!

[shiftin_gear98]

I think the village idiot % is now about 80% of the worlds population.
(Obviously not you guys n gals)

[DJ123]

Originally Posted by Seeker

In medieval times a village would typically be 50-100 people and one village idiot.

As we progressed and built bigger towns then the pub would be able to serve several hundreds of people but sat in the corner would be a guy who "knows things" and will tell anyone in earshot - the incarnation of the village idiot. We were relatively safe because the village idiots couldn't easily talk to each other.

Then came the internet and Facebook. Bam! All the village idiots in the world can now chat, build conspiracies and offer advice. The voice of reason, logic and common sense is drowned out in a rising babble of nonsense given equal airtime to plausibility and the truth.

Surely that means by now there are whole villages full of idiots, as they seek like minded people . . . . forums excluded