While Palau is an independent nation in “free association” with the US, they get their mail delivered by the United States Postal Service (ZIP codes 96939 and 96940); from locations in the US, it is considered domestic rather than international mail. (Puerto Rico often show up on the state drop-down list too, along with Guam, the US Virgin Islands, etc.)
I already started a thread with my own candidate for the Museum: Rocketeer changes the oil in his Fiat
The ZIP .22, a gun that not only had an incredibly uncomfortable grip, the only way to actually cock the gun to fire was to place your finger right next to the barrel containing a live round you were planning on firing.
Maybe…
From Forgotten Weapons
USFA Zip 22: How a Garbage Gun Destroyed A Good Company
Zip 22: Shooting the Worst Gun Ever
I have fired some gawd-awful things in my day and even owned a working (repro) Puckle -------- but that thing is hideous.
I have GOT to try one some day.
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For definitions of “completely exposed” that include “armored behind 1.2mm of polycarbonate plastic”
My television is maybe 5 years old and has two HDMI inputs. HDMI1 is for the cable, HDMI2 is for the BluRay. Turn the BluRay on, and the TV switches from HDMI1 to HDMI2. Wonderful. Okay, when I’m done with the BluRay and turn it off, does the TV switch back to HDMI1? Of course not! It goes to TV (antenna) and tells me the signal is too week. No shit, Sherlock! I don’t have a fucking antenna. I have to go to the console and push the top button on the side 3 times to get back to HDMI1.
That’s weird. On my TV, when I turn off the Bluray player, the TV switches back to the cable box input. BTW, my TV has four HDMI inputs, which is common, along with various others (VGA, RCA and so forth). But nowadays, almost everything connects to the TV via an HDMI cable so I’d expect new TVs to come with more than four HDMI inputs. When I checked, though, four HDMI inputs seemed to be standard.
Yes it’s a little older, back when 46" was pretty big. Just 2 HDMI + coax + the white/yellow/red RCA jacks.
How big is this stove? The size of a queen size bed? Why do you have to lean to reach the back burner? Just extend your arm....
The auto dashboard lights feature. I see too many cars driving with headlights off and the dashboard lit up at night. If it’s dark enough to need the dashboard lit up, it’s dark enough for the headlights too.
It has improved on the last decade, but some of those drop-down menus seem to have been programmed by people who have never left the US and can’t imagine anyone else has, either. My husband and I had to fib on numerous online job applications because we pent 6 years teaching on Saipan. The mail code is MP. We chose Hawaii as the state code because there was nothing except the 50 states and DC on the menus.
May I suggest not an object, but a procedure. I needed a PET scan before brain surgery, and my insurance would pay only for one at a certain famous hospital in Baltimore. (All other care was for a different facility, which the insurance also paid.) So I call Nuclear Medicine for an appointment. “What is your patient number?” I don’t have one. So I am transferred to the department that will give me one. “When is your appointment?” I can’t get one without a patient number. I went back and forth between these two departments for 2 weeks before someone at Nuclear Medicine had mercy on me an penciled me in. I was able to get the patent number and confirm the appointment. Thank God I didn’t need emergency surgery.
Okay, those places on your TV where you put in the name of something you might want to watch by:
Well first you have to get to the screen where you can enter the name of a program. This can be a challenge in itself.
Then, you put the name in by going to an alphabetical representation of each letter, arranged in some format that is never the same for any two such screens. So there might be 10 characters to a line, or 8, or whatever. Usually arranged so you have to use the arrows on your remote to scroll up, down, or over by several letters, all the time watching a separate screen to see if maybe your show will pop up. The only worse way to type something in was those embossing tape thingies where all the letters were on a wheel and you had to click through.
Okay, and then every now and then you get one that’s qwertyuiop. Which is fine and great for a keyboard, even a small keyboard. I don’t know if hunt-and-peckers have it any easier but I’m a touch typist. Like I know where the hell the C is. Is there actually supposed to be a touchscreen on my television? (I tried it. Not on my TV.)
And to put in a space you always have to go way out of your way. Oh did you goof? Just try and figure out where the backspace is.
There has to be a better way. It almost seems like there used to be a better way. (Oh, yeah, want to watch this program, wait till Thursday at 8pm, 7 central.)
I honestly think this is even worse than how I used to have to compose texts on my old phone (for C, hit the 2 three times, etc.).
I nominate “Changing the headlight bulb in a Dodge Ram Pickup truck.”
I’ve done it – it goes like this.
- Open hood.
- Remove protective cover over radiator.
- Using a super long socket that normal people don’t have, remove the bolts holding the grill.
- Remove entire front grill and set aside.
- Turn steering wheel all the way to (opposite of side you’re changing).
- Open small access port located in the front of the wheel well.
- Reach inside and remove bolts holding light mount.
- Reach inside and feel around for the bulb/socket.
- Twist to remove (No! Not that way! The other way! That way will break it).
- Remove entire light to expose bulb and socket.
- Replace bulb in socket.
12 - 21. All the above in reverse order.
This is insane. Who in hell decided to mount the engine/battery/etc. components in such a way that access to headlights is through a wheel well?
The power switch on my work monitor is in the bottom right corner of the screen. It acts as the actual corner of the monitor. And it is very sensitive.
So much so that if you even lightly brush up against it - which is very easy to do - the monitor turns off.
When the dog ate the remote for my smart TV I found on Amazon a replacement that included a qwerty keyboard on the back for ten bucks, only two more than one duplicating the OEM. It didn’t work out. It was three times as thick and twice as heavy as the original remote, the buttons felt weird under your fingers when you were thumbing the top side, and when looking at the keyboard the IR signal is shooting out the left side and the TV didn’t pick it up so well.
Two days later I bought a duplicate.
We’ve all switched to on-demand viewing that requires keyboard input, but traditional TV hardware wasn’t designed around that. The sleek solution is voice control, but it’s not reliable yet. Alexa works okay for Prime Video, but it’s flaky for Netflix.
The human body is an ode to bad design, calling into question the existence of a benevolent Creator. What spiteful, nasty God would co-locate the entertainment system and the toxic waste disposal system? 