Paid Members Onyx2 Posted Tuesday at 03:02 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 03:02 PM Martin Lewis winds me up irrationally, but his Small Ideas initiative is really good. Send them something small and annoying that is feasible to fix and they'll campaign to get it done. In their words "Small, do-able, non-political - the stuff that'd actually make life better." eg. consistent council forms, standardised allergy labels on menus, fairer car parking charges. What Small Idea™️ would you like fixed? (I'm aware this sounds like astroturfing, I just thought it would make a good idea for a thread. I'm sure it will involve toilets before long). Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted Tuesday at 03:29 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 03:29 PM One app for car-parking. Well, one app for most things but, definitely one for car-parking. I don't need 4 different apps, 2 of which you uninstall only to come across a car park that uses it after 3 years and now you've forgotten your login, it's got your old number plate and a bank card that expired in 2024. RingGo, Tap2Pay, Pay2Park, Get2Fuck, they're all annoying as shit. Just use one! Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted Tuesday at 03:33 PM Members Posted Tuesday at 03:33 PM An app that let's you see how many old people are in a shop at any one time. That way you're not stuck behind them at the shelves, at the tills, anywhere really. I'd call it OAPQ. Quote
DavidB6937 Posted Tuesday at 03:34 PM Posted Tuesday at 03:34 PM A killswitch on hire bikes in London where if they go through red lights they just stop and the bastards fall off. Quote
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted Tuesday at 03:43 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 03:43 PM 39 minutes ago, Onyx2 said: sure it will involve toilets before long). Use of a urinal next to mine when there's another free results in a small fine. Jail time if it's repeated behaviour. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted Tuesday at 04:04 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 04:04 PM 20 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said: A killswitch on hire bikes in London where if they go through red lights they just stop and the bastards fall off. On any e-bike, really. Those things are motorised/powered vehicles, and they can and have severely hurt people when their riders don't deign to stop at reds or zebras. Quote
Paid Members Onyx2 Posted Tuesday at 06:18 PM Author Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 06:18 PM 2 hours ago, Carbomb said: On any e-bike, really. Those things are motorised/powered vehicles, and they can and have severely hurt people when their riders don't deign to stop at reds or zebras. Off topic but as an avid e-bike user I'd really like the language cleared up on these things. The difference between "I get a bit of help when I pedal up to 15 mph" is different from "I turn the throttle and just go". Quote
Paid Members Onyx2 Posted Tuesday at 06:20 PM Author Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 06:20 PM 2 hours ago, tiger_rick said: One app for car-parking. Well, one app for most things but, definitely one for car-parking. I don't need 4 different apps, 2 of which you uninstall only to come across a car park that uses it after 3 years and now you've forgotten your login, it's got your old number plate and a bank card that expired in 2024. RingGo, Tap2Pay, Pay2Park, Get2Fuck, they're all annoying as shit. Just use one! It's slow-going but this is sort-of in the works. Quote
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted Tuesday at 06:25 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 06:25 PM 2 hours ago, tiger_rick said: One app for car-parking. Well, one app for most things Aligning yourself with the ideals of the Chinese Communist Party and Elon Musk is a bold take Tigger. Both of the aforementioned entities want 1 app for everything, though car parking isn't usually high on their agenda. Quote
Paid Members gmoney Posted Tuesday at 06:33 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 06:33 PM All freight on the canals. Quote
Cannibal Man Posted Tuesday at 06:58 PM Posted Tuesday at 06:58 PM (edited) I agree with the above proposals re: full life terms for people using e-bikes or e-scooters under any circumstance Edited Tuesday at 06:59 PM by Cannibal Man Quote
Paid Members BomberPat Posted Tuesday at 07:19 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 07:19 PM 52 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: Aligning yourself with the ideals of the Chinese Communist Party and Elon Musk is a bold take Tigger. Both of the aforementioned entities want 1 app for everything, though car parking isn't usually high on their agenda. I don't think the point was the Musk style "everything app", just a single app for a single task, rather than having to figure out which of the six different car park apps you're meant to use. I'd say the same should go for event ticketing - I've been trying to cut down the number of apps on my phone, but keep having to reinstall Ticketmaster, or Eventbrite, or the O2 app, or the *other* O2 app, or Dice, or...etc etc Quote
CavemanLynn Posted Tuesday at 07:32 PM Posted Tuesday at 07:32 PM The same cylindrical screw-top shape for ALL liquids and drinks, in half-, one-, two-, and four-pint sizes. All bottle labels should be one piece of wraparound paper with a single sticky. No more plastic bottles going to landfill or needlessly smashed up by the bin men. Bring back weekly bottle collections and have Unilever pay to make more or buy them back cheap. Proper recycling, not just shipping trash to the Nords so we can claim we're closer to carbon neutral. There's a similar idea brewing for cardboard packets and boxes, but nowhere near fully formed yet. Traffic lights that turn into zebra crossings off peak. Turning left on red when clear. Quote
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted Tuesday at 08:48 PM Paid Members Posted Tuesday at 08:48 PM 5 hours ago, tiger_rick said: Get2Fuck It's GettyFa in Glasgow Quote
Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz Posted Tuesday at 09:00 PM Posted Tuesday at 09:00 PM A one of two hour window in supermarkets in which only one person from a family can shop. I am fed up of going to supermarkets and other people treating it like an outing with both parents, auntie and Uncle and their six kids congregating near the chiller I need to be in, all whilst the mother spends around 5 minutes to decide to buy Cumberland or Lincolnshire sausages Quote
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