Rodney wrote:...most people don't know how long a second is? |
Annoying things that rightfully annoy you • Page 10
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Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Rodney 5,029 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIn my experience, yeah, they count "1, 2", when they should count from 0 to 2, or 1 to 3..
I've met three Australians who used the "2 second rule" to justify driving one second behind the person in front when I told them they were tailgating.
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Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI've never seen that before. It sounds incredibly, incredibly dumb. Why would you call it the 3-second rule when it isn't 3 seconds? Maybe a "count to 3" rule would work, but it's still dumb.
It reminds me of that old "bodybuilders arguing over number of days in a week" thing.
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&page=1
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mrpon 37,366 posts
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Yeah it's stupid, but general rules should assume stupidity -
Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agomrpon wrote:
It really is the perfect example of arguing on the internet. It should be in a sociology textbook.
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Mola_Ram wrote:
Ack! I got 3 pages into that thread, then stopped reading and went back to work, but felt that, suddenly nothing I was doing made any sense to me anymore. It literally made me dumber.
mrpon wrote:
It really is the perfect example of arguing on the internet. It should be in a sociology textbook.
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Registered 8 years agoI don't really mean that, I actually quite like dogs generally.
It's just my scum neighbours have a cunt of dog that barks constantly and my kid's dog has cost me a small fucking fortune in vet bills recently. -
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Registered 17 years agoMola_Ram wrote:
Well...
Rodney wrote:
...most people don't know how long a second is?
Mola_Ram wrote:
Should be called three second rule. Most people count "1, 2" not realising that's really only one second.
We're taught the two second rule here. If fewer than two seconds go by between the car in front passing something and you passing it, you're too close.
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Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Some_Goats 190 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWhen you select 'Help' or 'More' etc in a game and, instead of switching to an in-game screen, it opens up the internet browser.
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI'm on my bus home from work
Someone has brought a dog on with them
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Registered 14 years agoSome_Goats wrote:
Never seen this in a game, but I've seen it in plenty applications, and they always choose Explorer
When you select 'Help' or 'More' etc in a game and, instead of switching to an in-game screen, it opens up the internet browser.
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Happens in loads of Xbox games. Mainly published by MS -
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Registered 15 years agoZomoniac wrote:
I was taught to count 121, 122, 123 instead of 1, 2, 3 as that makes it much closer to one second when you say it in your head. I don't think it'd work if you think it like one-hundred-and-twenty-one, but one-twenty-one should be about right?
Mola_Ram wrote:
Well...
Rodney wrote:
...most people don't know how long a second is?
Mola_Ram wrote:
Should be called three second rule. Most people count "1, 2" not realising that's really only one second.
We're taught the two second rule here. If fewer than two seconds go by between the car in front passing something and you passing it, you're too close.
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Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agodominalien wrote:
I've heard similar things. Like Americans saying "Mississippi" in between numbers.
Zomoniac wrote:
I was taught to count 121, 122, 123 instead of 1, 2, 3 as that makes it much closer to one second when you say it in your head. I don't think it'd work if you think it like one-hundred-and-twenty-one, but one-twenty-one should be about right?
Mola_Ram wrote:
Well...
Rodney wrote:
...most people don't know how long a second is?
Mola_Ram wrote:
Should be called three second rule. Most people count "1, 2" not realising that's really only one second.
We're taught the two second rule here. If fewer than two seconds go by between the car in front passing something and you passing it, you're too close.
The timing has never really been an issue for me. But I've been playing music (recently percussion) for most of my life, so I can't really judge as it just feels normal to me.
I do find it weird when people can't clap in time to music, though. Like at concerts and such. -
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Registered 6 years agoLiam Neeson famously cannot clap in time to the music. Also he can never put his shoes on the correct feet no matter how many times he's shown how to do it. -
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Registered 16 years agoMola_Ram wrote:
We're taught the two second rule here. If fewer than two seconds go by between the car in front passing something and you passing it, you're too close. -
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Registered 4 years agoBought a blu ray disc for the kids this weekend from Poundland. Youngest said she wanted to watch it when I was in the middle of washing the dishes. So I dry my hands and go connect the player to the TV (hasn't been used in ages), pop in the disc... Hoping to press Play and fuck off back to my sink full of dirty crap.
"WARNING: IF YOU COPY THIS DISC YOU'LL BE PROSECUTED.." and associated screens for about three minutes, with animated Universal logos between warning screens. Completely unskippable on a nearly 30 year old movie almost everyone has seen and I doubt anyone would really give a fuck about copies of.
Finally get to something I can skip through - a fucking animation thanking me for buying the blu ray. They probably wouldn't thank me if I knew I bought the fucker from Poundland.
Another animated Universal logo.. Followed by an animated menu that takes about 15 seconds to get to the point where you can click the bloody Play button.
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Registered 14 years agoI'm sure I read that you couldn't hack unskippable ads on DVDs because the disc literally doesn't have anything encoded for the scene the skip button should take you to. So it would have to be hacked disc by disc - which would never happen -
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Registered 15 years agoPsiloc wrote:
I have a Yamaha DVD that some dude has released custom firmware for back in the day and it lets you skip everything, so that’s not true.
I'm sure I read that you couldn't hack unskippable ads on DVDs because the disc literally doesn't have anything encoded for the scene the skip button should take you to. So it would have to be hacked disc by disc - which would never happen -
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