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#3198950 23-Feb-2024 08:41

Handle9: Slow motion watching my Apple Watch fall off the vanity directly face down onto the tiles and knowing what the inevitable result would be.

It’s a stupid design for the screen and now I need to figure out what to replace it with.

The Huawei GT3 Pro is an excellent watch with exceptional battery life (I usually charge once every 2 weeks). Knowing you have Apple Devices, why wouldn't you replace like with like though?

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#3198951 23-Feb-2024 08:41

Technofreak:

while there's road works on a main road there's also road works on the most logical alternative route. You'd think there would be some joined up thinking when these jobs are planned.

This is exactly what happened with the roundabout project I mentioned above. The day that SH6 was closed, the next most logical route was New Renwick Road and that had traffic lights with periodic full closures to undertake seal repairs. To add insult to injury the seal damage being repaired is about two years old and they did a rough job of repairing it.

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#3198957 23-Feb-2024 09:02

Movie trailers played on the radio during breakfast shows (looking at you Hosk).

they serve no purpose, it takes you a bit to figure out what you are listening to when really you should be watching it.

if said movie promoters want promotion on the radio then stick to the usual “15sec narration ending with “see it in a theatre near you”.

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#3199008 23-Feb-2024 11:03

MikeAqua:

Technofreak:

while there's road works on a main road there's also road works on the most logical alternative route. You'd think there would be some joined up thinking when these jobs are planned.

This is exactly what happened with the roundabout project I mentioned above. The day that SH6 was closed, the next most logical route was New Renwick Road and that had traffic lights with periodic full closures to undertake seal repairs. To add insult to injury the seal damage being repaired is about two years old and they did a rough job of repairing it.

One job is on a State Highway (SH6) and is being managed by Waka Kotahi / NZTA.
The other job is on a local road (New Renwick Road) and is being managed by the Territorial Local Authority - Marlborough District Council.

Unfortunately it's probably too much to expect a high level of coordination between the two, except for 'special projects' where they set up and staff a joint venture type office

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#3199030 23-Feb-2024 12:08

PolicyGuy:

One job is on a State Highway (SH6) and is being managed by Waka Kotahi / NZTA.
The other job is on a local road (New Renwick Road) and is being managed by the Territorial Local Authority - Marlborough District Council.

Unfortunately it's probably too much to expect a high level of coordination between the two, except for 'special projects' where they set up and staff a joint venture type office

The non-national roads in Marlborough are managed by Marlborough Roads, which NZTA are (were) involved in so both organisations would have been aware of the other's project.

Also there has been a metric crap-tonne of publicly on the SH6 closure. Signage, newspaper, social media, Antenno being the channels I saw notification in. The local guys 1000% knew when the SH6 closure was

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#3199144 23-Feb-2024 13:44

networkn:
Handle9: Slow motion watching my Apple Watch fall off the vanity directly face down onto the tiles and knowing what the inevitable result would be.

It’s a stupid design for the screen and now I need to figure out what to replace it with.

The Huawei GT3 Pro is an excellent watch with exceptional battery life (I usually charge once every 2 weeks). Knowing you have Apple Devices, why wouldn't you replace like with like though?

The software on Apple Watches is great but the design isn’t, particularly the screen design. Both my wife and I have smashed the screen on ours and it has a good money after bad feel. Flooring here is 95% tiles so it feels inevitable that it’ll happen again.

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#3199155 23-Feb-2024 14:16

Handle9:

The software on Apple Watches is great but the design isn’t, particularly the screen design. Both my wife and I have smashed the screen on ours and it has a good money after bad feel. Flooring here is 95% tiles so it feels inevitable that it’ll happen again.

I've not dropped mine nor has it fallen but both my gt2 and gt3 have taken their fair share of squash related knocks and coped OK.

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#3199160 23-Feb-2024 14:29

MikeAqua:
To add insult to injury the seal damage being repaired is about two years old and they did a rough job of repairing it.

Various groups have now (apparently) dug up a major arterial road near here with no real alternative route (Kaipatiki) for the third time in a row. As soon as one bit was finished another crew came along and dug it up again.

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#3199165 23-Feb-2024 14:43

neb:
MikeAqua:

To add insult to injury the seal damage being repaired is about two years old and they did a rough job of repairing it.

Various groups have now (apparently) dug up a major arterial road near here with no real alternative route (Kaipatiki) for the third time in a row. As soon as one bit was finished another crew came along and dug it up again.

One of those was from the flooding so not really a planning failure, but the digging it for a big sewer, and then digging it again for more drainage is the inexcusable 2 things. Not sure why they are taking so long doing these things either since I never see any work happening.

The annoying thing is that its opened up one lane with stop go people during the day, but at night they just put signs up limiting it to one way despite the road showing as back open both ways on all the mapping apps.

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#3199172 23-Feb-2024 15:01

richms:
One of those was from the flooding so not really a planning failure, but the digging it for a big sewer, and then digging it again for more drainage is the inexcusable 2 things. Not sure why they are taking so long doing these things either since I never see any work happening.

Yup, it's now been close to a year of work, and road closure, for just over 1km of pipe laid.

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#3199174 23-Feb-2024 15:28

Tile flooring.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3199202 23-Feb-2024 16:40

networkn:

Handle9:

The software on Apple Watches is great but the design isn’t, particularly the screen design. Both my wife and I have smashed the screen on ours and it has a good money after bad feel. Flooring here is 95% tiles so it feels inevitable that it’ll happen again.

I've not dropped mine nor has it fallen but both my gt2 and gt3 have taken their fair share of squash related knocks and coped OK.

I've got a Watch GT in a drawer which I'll use for a bit to decide what would make the most sense.

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#3199209 23-Feb-2024 16:53

Getting a letter stating that our road will be getting chipsealed.

A: It doesn't need doing

B: it's currently (and always has been) tarseal

C: the low quality of chipsealing these days means that it'll be spitting tar and stones for the next year or so

D: Road noise will increase exponentially

E: We'll have to park the kids' cars off the road somewhere and the side streets are also being done, so it'll be quite a distance away, I assume.

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#3199211 23-Feb-2024 16:55

Handsomedan:

Getting a letter stating that our road will be getting chipsealed.

A: It doesn't need doing

B: it's currently (and always has been) tarseal

C: the low quality of chipsealing these days means that it'll be spitting tar and stones for the next year or so

D: Road noise will increase exponentially

E: We'll have to park the kids' cars off the road somewhere and the side streets are also being done, so it'll be quite a distance away, I assume.

Happening around the shore again. Horrid surface.

Make sure you put in the hard breaking and acceleration when its bedding in to ruin it so that there is no savings since they have to come back and fix it.

Also waste their time asking how to get the black spots off your car. They wont be helpful but the more the council suffer for these idiotic decisions the better.

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#3199213 23-Feb-2024 17:06

richms:

Happening around the shore again. Horrid surface.

Make sure you put in the hard breaking and acceleration when its bedding in to ruin it so that there is no savings since they have to come back and fix it.

Also waste their time asking how to get the black spots off your car. They wont be helpful but the more the council suffer for these idiotic decisions the better.

Nose. Face. Spite. You pay for it so they don't care.

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