Life's little annoyances...

[Spacecadet]

65" TV. It's really neat, apart from having the ability to have hand controls,, so you stretch and a menu comes up...

Onkyo A/V Amp has just be purchased too, delivery on Sat. Just now working out which speakers to go for. I have BOSE Cube speakers on my separates, so I am thinking of stealing them, as they are very good. Then need some base.

Edit:
I thought about a projector, but thought the kids would prefer the TV. The 65" TV is huge. massive, and still stuns me every time I walk into the room, and we have a very large TV room. Quite happy at the moment, until I come across someone with a projector set up that blows me away.

only $25K for a 4K projector
Sony 4K Home Theater ES Projector | VPL-VW1000ES | Sony USA

[Scoobos]

tories.

K'thnx.

[Old Hack]

only $25K for a 4K projector
Sony 4K Home Theater ES Projector | VPL-VW1000ES | Sony USA

I have a single contractor friend, no mortgage, large house in clapham, and he's just got a TV room set up with expensive projector. Looking forward to seeing it. I always ask him for his advice, as he's very much into his A/V gear. I am hoping I don't come away disappointed with mine, for as sure as chips is chips, my wife would blow a fuse if I started hankering after something else, now I have spent what I have.

4k - You're going to be able to smell their breath with that resolution

[Paddy]

If I hear that call-centre non-apology again ; “We are sorry you feel that way” I will &^%$ and *^*&^% them

[NickFitz]

So you're driving on a single-carriageway A road, speed limit 60mph. It's a clear, bright day, the road is dry, the traffic is light in both directions. Then you come up behind somebody who insists at driving at 45mph, occasionally getting up as fast as 48mph on the downhill bits.

Annoying, but you cut them some slack: maybe they don't know the road, or only recently learned to drive and lack confidence, or are getting on a bit and their reactions have slowed. Better to be safe than sorry.

And then you come to a village, clearly signposted as having a 40mph limit. And they speed up, and drive through it at about 55mph

And after you get through it, you catch up with them on the other side because they've slowed back down to 45mph again

[Cliphead]

So you're driving on a single-carriageway A road, speed limit 60mph. It's a clear, bright day, the road is dry, the traffic is light in both directions. Then you come up behind somebody who insists at driving at 45mph, occasionally getting up as fast as 48mph on the downhill bits.

Annoying, but you cut them some slack: maybe they don't know the road, or only recently learned to drive and lack confidence, or are getting on a bit and their reactions have slowed. Better to be safe than sorry.

And then you come to a village, clearly signposted as having a 40mph limit. And they speed up, and drive through it at about 55mph

And after you get through it, you catch up with them on the other side because they've slowed back down to 45mph again

How many times I've encountered that

And the variant, they drive slowly and at gentle curves slow right down. As soon as there's a straight bit of clear road where I could overtake they put the foot down.

[OwlHoot]

Finding you've run out of fags at midnight, after the nearby shops have closed, and not finding a full packet in your coat pocket (*)

(*) See thread "Life's little Pleasures"

[OwlHoot]

How many times I've encountered that

And the variant, they drive slowly and at gentle curves slow right down. As soon as there's a straight bit of clear road where I could overtake they put the foot down.

Have to admit I'm probably guilty of that, and even to some extent the bizarre behaviour NF describes (although I'd slow down going through a village).

Being a townie, I'm rather nervous on rural single carriageway A roads, and bends, on the grounds that if you're doing 60 and the traffic coming the other way is too, or if a dozy tractor driver pulls out of a siding, then a prang is fairly certain to be terminal and possibly a small item on the evening news.

Also, I usually slow right down at blind bends because obviously one doesn't know what is round the corner, whether a danger to one's self or cyclist on the same side of the road.

By contrast motorways feel much safer and, traffic and conditions permitting, I'm happy to floor it and stooge along at 98 MPH

[mudskipper]

A new bra that you wear for half a day before discovering it's itchy...

[Alias]

A new bra that you wear for half a day before discovering it's itchy...

wash it first?