Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

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  1. OurJud

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    Morrison's, my local supermarket, have over the last 2 - 3 weeks introduced a complex maze system to their store by cordoning off the ends of aisles around the checkouts in order to direct shoppers. There's a route for trolley shoppers, a route for basket shoppers, and a route for self-service shoppers, and it really is like a maze. None of this was in place at the height of the pandemic, and it wasn't causing any problems then. People were still keeping their distance from others and there was no gatherings around the checkouts.

    But it's just typical of authority to do something like this, where common sense goes out of the window because they must be 'seen' to be doing something to help the situation. Only it doesn't help, it just hinders.
     
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    Currently, the rights to the show have been grabbed by one of the big commercial companies. They advertised how they restored* it to full length and did a new, better German dub (thankfully, they were able to keep the same voice over actor for Magnum. He has such a cool voice... Unfortunately, the original voice over actor of Higgins had already passed away.)

    But from what I hear (mostly from an interview with said Magnum-voice-over-guy), it had nothing to do with story integrity or keeping the original impact... more with just money. The original broadcaster holds the rights for the original German dub and would not sell them.

    Also from what I hear, this new full-length version was not very successful, because viewers balked at the non-Magnum-voice changes, and the original first-season opening theme, which had never been used here before.

    The irony is that the show is nowadays not only shown on the commercial networks that paid for the new dub, but also on stations of the original broadcaster... with the new dub and in full length. (The fans and purists would buy the disc sets, and use the English track. The traditional TV broadcast is just icing. The curious thing is that there's currently no German digital streaming service carrying it.)

    *I doubt that they needed to 'restore' anything. They simply took the original footage of the US version.
     
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    Monty Python and the Holy Grail is on IFC. The upside is that IFC doesn’t edit anything out of movies. The down side is they still show commercials, and the person who decides when and where to place those ads seems to have a Doctorate in choosing the absolute worst spots.
     
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    Not being able to turn my brain off at night. I had to get up at 4am because I couldn't stop thinking about this scene in my WIP. so i got up to write. felt satisfied with the notes i had taken. tried to go back to sleep around 6 so that I could wake up in another hour.

    Woke up tired (naturally), now it feels like this day is dragging on and on and i want to take a nap lol!!:supersleepy:
     
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    What drives me absolutely bonkers is when someone is working and talking at the same time, but while they're talking, they suddenly stop doing the work and just pause. It drives me up a wall, even when I have no stake in their work. Like even when just watching a video of a guy cleaning his metalworking equipment. Skin is crawling.
     
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    Pluto not being a planet.
     
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    Flipside being, that it still exists as a solar body within our solar system. :)
    Planet or no, it is ingrained on the minds of many regardless of scientific status.
     
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    Dwarf planets are planets too. Just... little ones...
     
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    They literally arent though. It's a misnomer.
     
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    If Pluto is a dwarf planet, and Ceres is a planetoid, then they still count as celestial bodies
    as far as we are concerned. :)
     
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    I didn't know that. I really thought that astronomers dissed Pluto merely for being too small.
     
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    Pluto is 5'11 that's why
     
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    Well, a lot of planets grow taller during late puberty...
     
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    The thing is, Earth in the same neighborhood wouldn't be able to clear its own orbit.
     
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    You mean the Kuiper belt objects? Sounds like a crowded neighborhood. Earth is lucky to have Jupiter "nearby".
     
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    Cleared around its orbit means that, if you look at this example, you can see the moons are where darker lines are in the ring because they have cleared up all the material in their orbital path. Imagine the same except on the solar system level.
    Ceres is in amongst millions of asteroids, many not too far off its own size.

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    The planets have nothing ahead or behind them in their circle around the sun, well, nothing of note. Technically, even Jupiter hasn't cleared its orbit if you count asteroids, but the term is generally meant to mean larger bodies of a more comparable size.
     
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    I can watch grown people play tag and watch celebrities watch television. Masks, folks. Let's end this nonsense.
     
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    So Charon is not a moon? Are they just a binary? Do asteroids have moons?
     
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    Let's take it to the experts:

     
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    Sure do! Believe they might be called satellites, though.
     
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    *shrugs*
     
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    Yup, satellites or moons is fine, they basically mean the same thing. Charon is a moon or satellite of Pluto. Although they can be also considered a binary pair. Satellite is the catch-all term for ANYthing that orbits another, larger body (that's why the Earth has thousands of man-made satellites :) ). A moon can be something that orbits anything other than a star.

    There's a big grey area over two objects (like even the Earth and the Moon) that are comparable in size and wobble each other enough. So the binary thing is a whole other discussion.

    It's much rarer for an asteroid to have moons because it is harder for something with a smaller gravity well to capture other objects. Most moons around asteroids are thought to be born out of collisions with the main asteroid. But I've actually looked up a couple just a week or so ago because I needed one as a location in my novella.

    93 Minerva, for example, sits in the main asteroid belt and is just 145km across and has two baby moons orbiting it, Gorgoneion and Aegis. Both of them are roughly just 3km across.

    On the next episode of "The Sky at Night," Steve delves into the bizarre world of Quark Stars, and awaits the first quip of whether its a drink in a certain Ferengi's bar.
     
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