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Calling a child Stephen condemns them and everyone who even has to correspond with them to waste time, ink, pixels and bytes on an unnecessary extra letter thousands and thousands of times throughout their entire lifetime.
Iain's, just admit that the 2nd "I" serves no purpose whatsoever.
My wife's middle name is Liisa, apparently Finish in origin, but she's literally had the passport office send her stuff back and telling her she's spelt her name wrong...
Actually, there's one for the unnecessary list, middle names. Didn't bother with them for our kids.
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when it comes to driving and selecting important functions like air conditioning, de-misting and other important functions, is absolutely bloody stupid and dangerous
I think NCAP has realised. Cars will only get a 5 star safety rating if things like wipers and hazards have a physical 'thing' to operate them.Â
Enjoyed this thread... and it's given me an actual idea. All that expensive "opaque fridge door" does is turn a light on inside without having to open it. That could be a motion sensor rather than a knock sensor in a retail fridge or freezer. Now put doors and auto on lights on all the fridges in supermarkets. Add auto lights to the freezers while you're at it. Someone work out how much energy that could save...
I think NCAP has realised.
Very glad that's happening. I'd go further and make physical controls for anything you need to be able to operate on the move obligatory.
Prepare for rants from Musk. But sod him and his cutting corners to increase profits... and then selling the compromises as features.
Actually, there's one for the unnecessary list, middle names. Didn't bother with them for our kids.
Except when your son with no middle name gets teased relentlessly because his mates think his middle name is so awful that he won't admit he has one.
Also, middle names are useful when dishing out a proper telling off...
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When I'm king of the world, every product designer is going to be forced to use their own product for 6 months before the design is approved for public use.
I'm willing to bet the designers already know it's shit. The people who need to be forced to use it are the managers who want costs cut.
Re. the sugar v. sweetener debate above, I would suggest it's desirable to cut both down to a minimum.
Wet wipes.
Slimming products.
Ready chopped food in plastic.Â
Actually, there's one for the unnecessary list, middle names. Didn't bother with them for our kids.
Coincidentally, I was thinking about this the other day. I have a middle name, the only time it's ever been used is a) when you're really in trouble with your parents, b) having a middle initial to enter into arcade game high score tables and c) filling in forms that ask you for it. I don't recognise it as my name, I use it so infrequently that when I was younger I had to pause to remember how it was spelt. I've idly thought about officially changing my name just to drop it completely.
The Small doesn't have a middle name, he has a double-barrelled first name for reasons I cannot fathom. That's neither one nor the other. 🤷♂️
I suppose with more letters to work with it gives kids more options to choose their own preferred form of address. I can think of at least two friends at least who exclusively go by their middle name. For one of them it's not common knowledge that it is his middle name and very few people outside of family or officialdom know what his first name really is (technically it's not even his 'middle' name as he has three forenames).
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The detractors against artificial sweeteners always argued that putting them in soft drinks would merely encourage people to seek out sugars elsewhere.
but when I become president of the universe, I WILL ban sugars (and salt) from all foods.
that way, my subjects (supplicants?), will have to seek out fruit as a way to sate their cravings for sugar.
