Victor Meldrew

nJayM, the autopilot/autothrottle did drop out and thus manual control from the pilots. It is one thing moaning about a cd-player not opening quick enough, quite another to having a go at flight protection computers and the AF447 crash.

Jim please read this thread …..

Jim please read this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=110788
You’ll split your sides laughing. 😀 Shouldn’t disturb the plumbing too much.

Jay. The most irritating thing is women standing in the centre of the isle, talking, totaly obliviouse to the fact you are even in said Supermarkket.
But, my out and out favourite, are the idle s****ds who having loaded their trolly, just dump them where they are.
Why do women feel they have to walk up and down EVERY isle, when they only went there to get just a few items.
If ever I go, I know what I want, get it and am out PDQ.
Jim

Lincoln .7

Hi Creaking door and Jim
Now you are very close to the problem in Civil Aviation – AF447 tragedy of why although they had 35,000 feet to play with and were flying all perfect seconds prior to disaster (no bomb) that a supposed competent and licensed flying crew spent so much time being distracted by erroneous ‘Fly By Wire’ cross messages (caused initially by pitots icing up and giving false speed readings).
Pitot errors caused by icing up due to weather sensing radar set to low sensitivity (boys in electronics and software had not yet come round to that bug fix or development) seeing only small storm and not the devilish massive storm right behind it. Hence other aircraft in same area got through unscathed as their weather radar was set correctly. Tragedy is they turned ( afull U turn almost in track) but remained pre occupied with sorting electronic mess ups rather than use 35,000 feet to descend slowly (avoiding stall) and put out a call for help from nearby aircraft.

Crew did not themselves take aircraft in to their control including taking auto thrust off.
e.g. Auto thrust of old showed physical movement of thrust levers now they stay stationary when in auto thrust mode – why? it’s all electronics.

Take back early manual control from auto pilot is what older pilots are echoing all round the world – ‘Fly By Wire’ is fine as decision support but always will be behind in programming events into simulation in contrast to reality of combinations of serious events.

Until acne pock marked ‘softies’ fly the jump seat or fly themselves the ‘Fly By Wire’ like all electronics will always be way behind human logic.

DVD and CD players the same. Some acne pock marked kid has written some software/firmware embedded in a silicon chip in the device.His former job a game boy programmer. It has it’s own optimised speed of decision making usually far slower than a mechanical switch or human logic. This optimised speed is slowed even more by the penny pinching manufacturers who cut quality of silicon chips and other interspersed electronics components before it physically release doors.
Second press of button means – crickey – open door and close door.:rolleyes: (“Why are these Old Gits so impatient with my perfect program?” says young acne kid programmer)

Older CD players had a little pin sized hole beside the device which permitted a pin or needle to put in and ejection of the CD manually. Maybe they have gone too.

It’s I-Robot to the fore:D

I’ve got another gripe. People who think I am vaguely interested in having a conversation with them about celebrity X (Amy Winehouse, Katie Price, Peter Andre, Kerry Katona, et al). I am simply not interested, and I will tell you that! 😡

Never mind headless chickens ……

Hi ThreeSpool

Never mind headless chickens …… Try the pastry counters at most supermarkets. Some very considerate customers (keen on spreading their unwashed hand borne infection) touch (not use tongs or tongs have fallen on floor) the baking/pastries – and lo and behold some even put them back when they change their minds):mad:
Supermarket car parks here are where incapable 4×4 drivers run over (fatally usually) others and usually family – quite a few up here – must be ‘insurance jobs’.

Hi laviticus

It’s called ‘Fair Trade’ women’s journal soppy stuff did you not know? In reality middle man get oodles more , poor ba..ard producing and or picking the veg/fruit produce gets a penny more but his cost of living also escalated. In fact it’s a load of cobblers and all the EU nonsense about perfectly shaped carrots, round tomatoes, perfect fruit and veg. (Christmas tree ornament like):rolleyes:

Fruit and veg you haven’t seen before is for the asylum seekers who are being paid so much and must have their creature comforts in food while settling in for the long haul legal process.:mad:

Not to forget the people who walk about like headless chickens in supermarkets. Those who stop and talk to a friend, blocking the whole aisle. Those that cough over the vegetables. The people that put things back, on a completely unrelated shelf.

If you want a laugh, spend five minutes in a supermarket car park. It is mind boggling.

Hi C.D. Firstly Warren, thanks for the get well message. I have a CD. DVD player, and it’s been checked over under warantee because, even though the remote checks out and is fully functional, it too seems to have a mind of it’s own, and it refuses to “Speak” to the CD//DVD player, damned annoying to say the least.
I am of the same opinion as you, as for no reason at all, the FM side of my 4×4 car radio packed up, I had to get rid of my caravan and 4×4 due to heealth reasons.
Whilst en route with the 4×4 to swap it for a Mini Cooper, without thinking, I pushed th FM button, and it kicked in, what the hell happened I don’t know, but I go along with you, the electronics are taking over.
When in Hospital, all on my ward had 4 monitors, a master, and slave backup. I asked a male nurse one day, what would happen if they all crashed,his reply was that, “We, meaning the patients, would all be in the proverbial,
The trouble is though Warren, we need these Peskey machines, whether we like it or not.As A bye exactly whats wrong with your comp?.
Jim.

Lincoln .7

SUPERMARKETS!!!!
Places of derision and corporate hell,telling me what i should buy,eat and drink.
Providing us with totally un cooperative trolleys to push that often cost me a pound as i forget Ive put one in.
How one week an item price can be double the week before.
Providing fruit and veg i have to google when i get home as Ive never seen them before.

…what would your gripe be…

Lots of my personal ‘Victor Meldrew’ moments come from waiting for machines to respond to my ‘requests’!

A while back machines and computers were designed to be our obedient servants or even better our slaves; when I pressed the eject button on my VCR it ejected to cassette straight-away, immediately, without delay, whatever it was doing. Nowadays when I hit eject on my DVD player there is an eight second delay, irrespective of what the player is doing (or not doing); it can have been sitting there, idle, for a week and it still waits eight full seconds before it give me my DVD! And it doesn’t even tell me that it is going to give me my DVD, it just sits there smugly waiting, so I’m not even sure if it ever will. Sometimes, thinking it hasn’t worked, I press the eject button again and then it opens, flashes my DVD at me, and then immediately closes again!

IT DRIVES ME ****ING MENTAL!!! 😡

Now I know that somebody somewhere is concerned about the potential for me being scythed clean in-half by a dangerously ejected still-spinning DVD but surely a quicker system is possible.

And now this electronic slave’s revolt seems to be spreading to my car CD player. Last week it refused to eject my CD and showed a nice message on its display ‘NO CD’! I was ****ing incandescent with rage! I know there is a CD in there; I’ve just been listening to it! Instead of giving me 100% wrong information and refusing to obey me, how about just running through the eject cycle anyway? Give the human being with the non-zero IQ the benefit of the doubt; what is the worst that could happen? :rolleyes:

When did our obedient slave machines start treating our orders as requests?

Don’t even get me started on computers!!! 😡

Yep. And an apple, which I gave to a nurse, just to keep the Dr away, so he couldn’t see what the nurse and I were up too behind the curtains…………………………………………………………………………You dirty minded so and so, I meant nothing at all like that;)
Jim.

Lincoln .7

Glad to see you’re back Jim! Did you get a bunch of gripes in hospital? 😀