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Thread: Shit that annoys you
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01-22-2018, 02:44 PM #17001Registered User
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01-22-2018, 03:10 PM #17002
The nice thing about a map is the scale so it's easier to form a mental picture of the route. In the city, looking at a map and then having to memorize the rights and lefts gives you a better mental picture than if you just do what the lady says. It's urban driving where the GPS makes it hard for me to understand where I actually am.
My son is a private pilot. We just do short trips, like Sacramento to the Golden Gate. I'm impressed that actually operating the plane (at least on a clear caln day when everything works) seems trivial compared to the route planning, constant communication with various towers, constant elevation changes due to various airfiels along the route, etc. He's working the entire time.
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01-22-2018, 03:51 PM #17003
i am an idiot with the gps on
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01-22-2018, 04:07 PM #17004
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01-22-2018, 04:11 PM #17005
people who put a new skintrack up the middle of the run rather than using the ALREADY ESTABLISHED one off to the side. what the fuck people.
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01-22-2018, 04:38 PM #17006
I agree. And unless something's changed since I was in the AF, my pilots always relied on good old fashioned paper aeronautical charts for flight planning, THEN plugged everything into the system. Just like flying then, for driving I still like a combination of paper maps and GPS. Personally on long road trips though, I almost entirely just depend on the regular maps, and just bust out the GPS for when I'm exploring an unknown city. That and just keeping tabs on where I'm at. I do like the live estimated arrival time and distance left. GPS is an awesome tool to supplement our navigation, but man has it made people COMPLETELY directionally challenged.
Despite what people may say about digital scalability, you just can't beat the scale of seeing the state in its entirety on something that's 3+ feet wide. SOOOOO much faster than zooming in and out and in and out, and panning around on a screen. So inefficient compared to a regular map.
I used to travel a lot around the country and I just kept a stack of those nice laminated Rand McNally road maps in the glove box. One for each state. Those ones aren't the most detailed but they fold up super easy. Need more detail? Break out the phone or pull up the car's nav.
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01-22-2018, 04:58 PM #17007Registered User
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Flying with a GPS is so much easier than using charts.
I alway fly IFR, I Follow Roads.
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01-22-2018, 05:00 PM #17008Registered User
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I hate people that hold their poles horizontally and swing their arms.
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01-22-2018, 05:22 PM #17009
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01-23-2018, 08:22 AM #17010
ordered a north face ABS vest in early december and it arrives without the canister and handle. so we call and the service people just can’t understand how this product works and what is missing.
hour long conversation while they figure it out.
then they say they will call us back with a resolution. dont call back for like a week. so we call them again and they give us an RA # to send the old one back and they will send us a new one. receive the new one and it comes without the MF cartridge and handle again.
so now we’re back to square one again. wtfskid luxury
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01-23-2018, 08:26 AM #17011“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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01-23-2018, 08:30 AM #17012
^jeezus BB. I would opt out of tnf for now. Go with a different set up. If they can't get that right, what else are they missing? Yeah, it's probably just a packaging issue, but wtf. They're not shipping lincoln logs, it's live saving equipment.
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01-23-2018, 08:32 AM #17013
Tell them your husband is a pro and you will not tolerate this.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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01-23-2018, 08:54 AM #17014
i had the same thought but they did expedite the new one so it seems unlikely. altho not totally out of the question if they just turned it around
and strawjack i wd go with the dakine abs vest instead but they are sold out and i think I recall going with the TNF originally bc the dakine was only available in the L/XL size.
luckily the avi danger has been so sketchy that i’ve mostly stayed out of the BC anyway but so so annoying. thanks for hearing me vent gangskid luxury
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01-23-2018, 08:58 AM #17015
I'd pull out the bag and paint a big middle finger on it, then use their label and send it back.
Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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01-23-2018, 09:17 AM #17016
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01-23-2018, 09:56 AM #17017
What's the etiquette again for farting in the skin track?
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01-23-2018, 09:57 AM #17018
Vent on the up
Zip on the down
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01-23-2018, 10:07 AM #17019
Stopped on interstate for 2 fucking hours and missing my flight. About 12 fuckers doing a rear ending gang bang and block the whole fucking interstate. Now I get to spend my day at DIA, fuck.
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01-23-2018, 10:32 AM #17020
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01-23-2018, 10:36 AM #17021
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01-23-2018, 10:38 AM #17022
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01-23-2018, 10:39 AM #17023“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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01-23-2018, 10:39 AM #17024Registered User
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This thread...
...aaaand, tuna casseroles...
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01-23-2018, 10:43 AM #17025Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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