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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 28, 2023 17:01:32 GMT
Minor facepalm, but I bought a small Bluetooth speaker about 5 months ago, use it to listen to music when I'm working or as a pc speaker when gaming.
For those months I've thought 'this is pretty good speaker quality but it's a bit bassy'
I've been arsing around fiddling with the EQ on my phone and PC to make the bass less pounding.
Today I realised that when I'd initially set it up and placed it, I'd pressed the bass boost button and had no idea that was even feature.
🤦♂️
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Post by Phattso on Nov 28, 2023 17:26:35 GMT
Well done. Your senile elder training is coming on leaps and bounds.
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wunty
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Post by wunty on Nov 28, 2023 19:59:54 GMT
Minor facepalm, but I bought a small Bluetooth speaker about 5 months ago, use it to listen to music when I'm working or as a pc speaker when gaming. For those months I've thought 'this is pretty good speaker quality but it's a bit bassy' I've been arsing around fiddling with the EQ on my phone and PC to make the bass less pounding. Today I realised that when I'd initially set it up and placed it, I'd pressed the bass boost button and had no idea that was even feature. 🤦♂️ Ah yes. One of those moments. If it helps at all, I recently bought a wireless vacuum cleaner for the kitchen. Took it out the box, including the wall bracket for it and secured said bracket to the wall. Placed the vacuum cleaner in it, took all packing off etc. Ready to go. I then noticed there was a huge 3m cable attached to it. Thought that was just for charging or something and then realised that no, it was moulded to the cleaner and no, it wasn't a cordless one that I'd presumed apropos to nothing when I bought it. I'd just decided it was. Kept it out of spite and even a week later I fucking hate it. Give me another couple of days and I'm going to set fire to the bloody thing.
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Post by blankoblank on Nov 28, 2023 21:07:24 GMT
My household have been pushing the (brand new, highly rated) vacuum cleaner with all our might around because it's so bloody hard to push, opened it up multiple times to clean it out in desperate efforts to 'loosen it up', and marveled at how ineffective it seems to be and now finally, 3 years later almost to the day, I realised we needed to push a button to make the spinny thing at the front start spinning.
It actually picks dirt up off the floor now instead of just pushing it around too which is novel.
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Post by minimatt on Nov 28, 2023 22:59:27 GMT
Been driving since we all paddled cars around Flintstones style and over the last hundred years the startup procedure has become muscle memory:
clutch in, turn key, 9000rpm, handbrake off, dump clutch, fly down the road in a cloud of tire smoke & fury.
standard Institute of Advanced Motorists stuff.
New car has a start button rather than twisty key and automatic rather than manual, and I've somehow forgotten how to drive. Three times in the last week or so I've got 100 meters down the road thinking "fuck, car's broken again, there's no power" before realising the handbrake is still on
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Post by Danno on Nov 28, 2023 23:12:04 GMT
Minor facepalm, but I bought a small Bluetooth speaker about 5 months ago, use it to listen to music when I'm working or as a pc speaker when gaming. For those months I've thought 'this is pretty good speaker quality but it's a bit bassy' I've been arsing around fiddling with the EQ on my phone and PC to make the bass less pounding. Today I realised that when I'd initially set it up and placed it, I'd pressed the bass boost button and had no idea that was even feature. 🤦♂️ Ah yes. One of those moments. If it helps at all, I recently bought a wireless vacuum cleaner for the kitchen. Took it out the box, including the wall bracket for it and secured said bracket to the wall. Placed the vacuum cleaner in it, took all packing off etc. Ready to go. I then noticed there was a huge 3m cable attached to it. Thought that was just for charging or something and then realised that no, it was moulded to the cleaner and no, it wasn't a cordless one that I'd presumed apropos to nothing when I bought it. I'd just decided it was. Kept it out of spite and even a week later I fucking hate it. Give me another couple of days and I'm going to set fire to the bloody thing. I have a neighbour that could use the conflagration. Don't shit in you own bed or whatever the saying is.
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Post by Danno on Nov 28, 2023 23:13:20 GMT
Been driving since we all paddled cars around Flintstones style and over the last hundred years the startup procedure has become muscle memory:
clutch in, turn key, 9000rpm, handbrake off, dump clutch, fly down the road in a cloud of tire smoke & fury.
standard Institute of Advanced Motorists stuff.
New car has a start button rather than twisty key and automatic rather than manual, and I've somehow forgotten how to drive. Three times in the last week or so I've got 100 meters down the road thinking "fuck, car's broken again, there's no power" before realising the handbrake is still on
Were you looking for the choke?
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 28, 2023 23:13:58 GMT
Is setting fire to vacuum cleaners like when a serial killer moves on from small animals
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Post by Danno on Nov 28, 2023 23:16:45 GMT
Is setting fire to vacuum cleaners like when a serial killer moves on from small animals But I haven't killed anyone
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Post by Danno on Nov 28, 2023 23:17:49 GMT
Wait, I didn't even set fire to the theoretical hoover
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Post by Danno on Nov 28, 2023 23:18:07 GMT
You can't prove shit AA
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 28, 2023 23:19:48 GMT
That's good to hear. I'm always comforted when people tell me they haven't killed anyone
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Post by minimatt on Nov 29, 2023 4:24:39 GMT
danno's "Haven't killed anyone called Alison" t-shirt prompting questions which are answered by the shirt
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Post by Saul1138 on Nov 29, 2023 9:57:27 GMT
Is there a Venn diagram with a list of other names?
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Post by blankoblank on Nov 29, 2023 11:28:54 GMT
Been driving since we all paddled cars around Flintstones style and over the last hundred years the startup procedure has become muscle memory:
clutch in, turn key, 9000rpm, handbrake off, dump clutch, fly down the road in a cloud of tire smoke & fury.
standard Institute of Advanced Motorists stuff.
New car has a start button rather than twisty key and automatic rather than manual, and I've somehow forgotten how to drive. Three times in the last week or so I've got 100 meters down the road thinking "fuck, car's broken again, there's no power" before realising the handbrake is still on
Oh god, I had the opposite problem earlier this year. Hired a car in Spain. It was a manual. My wife asked if I was OK driving a manual and I sagely said that I was looking forward to driving it because "I've driven loads. They're much more engaging to drive than automatics". I haven't driven a manual for about 15+ years and proceeded to: - Struggle to turn the thing on even with help from the car hire attendant. - Get to the Airbnb, park outside the car park gates while the owner comes out and opens the gates, then completely, completely fail to figure out how to start the car again (I think it was a combination of dipping the clutch and pushing the button or something) for, no word of a lie, 15+ minutes while the Airbnb owner stands there looking perplexed (I couldn't even explain because he didn't really speak much English), with his wife and daughter staring blankly out of their car at us. They must have been completely baffled as to why this car full of English and American people were sitting there instead of driving into the car park. - Drive up a mountain and completely fail at clutch control. Oh my god it was terrifying and I was convinced I was going to just roll back down the mountain. The car started smelling like I'd melted the clutch to slag and the smell lingered for the whole day.
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hicksy
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Post by hicksy on Nov 29, 2023 12:53:56 GMT
And this is the very reason I spend too much on the odd auto car hire abroad!
Feel for you… as that would be me!
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Blue_Mike
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 3, 2024 16:48:22 GMT
One of my feet and a good portion of the grouting of the bathroom floor are now stained royal blue thanks to my dropping my hair dye.
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Rich
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Post by Rich on Feb 3, 2024 16:57:12 GMT
User name checks out
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Post by Fake_Blood on Feb 3, 2024 18:31:31 GMT
He’s known as ice crotch in the local sauna.
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