Really annoying

[RobertArthur]

Mind over matter, common sense over design. Yes, it is possible. Retractable door handles give cars a sleek design. However, in the event of an accident, the opening mechanism can fail – leading to life-threatening situations. Due to safety concerns, China is now the first country to ban these modern handle designs. The change, which will come into effect on 1 January 2027, applies to all cars sold in China from that date onwards.

[RobertArthur]

@ Hotrodder, I think it should all sound familiar to someone with roots in California, PR, design, the colour of your shirt....Mono, also stereo playable.

[Blaze]

bsolutely spot on.........so there must be a reason why this doesn't happen.

Yes ...... £££££££$$$$$$$$$€€€€€€ !!!
Being such a consumer-driven society, we are persuaded that these often unnecessary gadgets are must-haves !

[RobertArthur]

And again Mick jagger, released as a single in the United States in June 1965. Somewhat of a slight concern to me, more than half a century ago:

When I'm driving in my car
And the man comes on the radio
And he's tellin' me more and more
'Bout some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination

I can't get no satisfaction

When I'm watchin' my TV
And a man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts should be
But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me

[Polarengineer]

The problem is that most of these gadgets are purely software with very cheap sensors ( well cheap to manufacture but bloody expensive to replace i.e. VW badge radar sensor that gets stolen regularly). Some IT nerd thinks up a nice to have and the next thing it is standard on all cars but not really required. Look for the off button/option.

[widge]

Some of the French channels only have adverts between programmes, particularly in the evening. There are an annoying number of ads around news/weather times and they're either aimed at selling cars, or at oldies (genre Stannah, hearing aids etc). We just kill the sound and use it to get a drink, loo or whatever.

Darts was just a pub game in the UK and Ireland and the Americans adopted it when they were over here during WW2. However, it was televising it in the 70s that it became such a huge cult.

The dressing up and crazy styles are just part of the fun !

Years ago when we watched more live tv and often used a simple tnt box with recording, the programs never started on time, and often the adds were 5 minutes before the end of a program, then no adverts between programs, so it was imposible to individually record things, especially when they would do things like shedule the sequal to a film before the original, you would have to record everything in one hit, then search through the recording until you found the start of the second film a nightmare.

[RobertArthur]

Harp plays "The mosquito massacre" by Lavinia Meijer.

[Blaze]

the programs never started on time,

That is so irritating about French tv. Programmes so often start 5, sometimes 10 minutes late and even worse, 3 or 4 minutes early.
Their scheduling is dreadful : They will screen a whole series in one evening rather than split the episodes over 2 or 3 weeks. Occasionally we've found episodes in the wrong order though this tends to be with repeats. Thank goodness for Replay.

[Blaze]

@ Robert Arthur : That is really clever !!