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Yes! So I’m not going mad after all. I think it’s only engineers who see these things for what, crap, they are. Everyone else thinks “oh that’s new” without thinking whether it’s better. I think I’ll get ‘turbo’ tattooed on my soldier and see if my sex life improves. Come on girls, look at my new iNob.

We’re very much on the same page Mole.



They should be strung up by their balls! I'm only surprised they have so much influence over the engineers and common sense..

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Hmmm. er, (cough), let me know if it works, won't you?

Actually, I was examining my toothpaste tube this morning and I might have to eat (only a small helping) of humble pie.

First of all, I use Sensodyne, but the tube is the same. So that's the first problem. There may be very few tube manufacturers and some brands may be forced to adopt a sh1te design of tube because it's widely available and therefore cheaper.

Secondly, my tube has a screw thread on the top, but it's a triple-start thread - so effectively three separate screw threads wound round each other. That means you only need to turn the cap 1/3 of a turn to close it, which, I suppose, SOME might regard as an advantage over the traditional cap which might need a WHOLE turn - maybe EVEN more!? The downside of such a coarse thread is that it would come off again just as easily. You can't get as much clamping force with a coarse thread as you can with a fine thread, and I suppose that for various health regulations, the plastics they're allowed to use to make the cap and tube are pretty low-friction, so the top would be forever coming off. The solution, therefore, was to build in a little "clicky" at the end of the thread to prevent the top from unscrewing itself whilst still enhancing your daily dental hygiene experience by saving you the time AND effort required to turn the cap a whole 360 (or more!) degrees.

Pure speculation on my part, of course, but often there are reasons that the public don't see.

Mind you, (and rather like electric handbrakes) I still see it as a situation that offers some advantages, but also brings some disadvantages and, in my particular set of circumstances, the disadvantages still just slightly outweigh the advantages.

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I'm not sure they have them....

Any chance of splitting this thread into "electric park brakes", "pointless features" & "toothpaste dynamics" ?

Mine’s not Colgate, like I mentioned, I used the name as an example. I can’t remember what it is because I’m looking through a ball of fog last thing at night, first thing in the morning. But it’s something being adopted by many of them. They got it right for the longest time with the cap being attached and you just flick it up, like a Jif lemon bottle only larger. You flicked it up and flicked it back down. It was quick, easy, efficient and can’t be lost like the screw cap version. And then they changed it.

The indicators used to be quick, easy, efficient and you couldn’t get lost in a battle to turn it off. And then they changed it.

The boot used to be quick, easy, efficient and you couldn’t get lost in a battle to open it. And then they changed it.

I see a theme developing here! Also, I don’t personally see the exceptions of old being a rule that they were all bad back then, especially when the modern stuff is equally bad - by design!

I’m sure you don’t need any gimmick big Mole

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Sorry ed, my apologies. Since the o/p didn’t take the topic seriously, (come back to debate the issue), I looked at “pointless features”. No offence or irritation was intended. I'll bow out now..

Add: You asked the o/p four pertinent questions two weeks ago ed, on page 1. He didn't answer you and disappeared like a fart in the wind. or as you put it well..

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

This is now done.
The original thread is here.

thanks... makes it easier to avoid tone's ranting