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Details, Details, Little Details...

Andy Neniu

Hi everyone,

I wanted to start a little lighthearted thread on those little details that I've noticed that I don't think anyone else has.

Did you notice the BBC iPlayer has a volume slider that references This is Spinal Tap? It goes to 11!

There's a trailer for the BBC News progamme "The Papers" which features a Gender Neutral character (there's one in a library and the voiceover uses the pronoun 'they').

There's a version of INXS's "New Sensation" in which Michael Hutchens introduces a "trumpet" in the breakdown/bridge but a saxophone starts playing.....(this one makes me giggle every time).

What other little details have you noticed that might have slipped others by? I love collecting these!

  • in reply to Shardovan

    (Isn't, though, the phrase 'the thing is is/that' superfluous?)

  • in reply to Peter

    That reminds me of laptops. When the pandemic started l was using my work laptop on its own as opposed to being plugged into a screen. I soon had a shoulder problem and realised it was because the mouse pad is not central. I now have a keyboard and mouse plugged in. I don't know why it isn't in the middle.

    Back to the subject of details, if I sit facing a patterned wallpaper I can tell you how many repeats in the pattern and if there are any variations. I am glad to say we have replaced most wallpaper at home with paint.

  • in reply to Peter

    Ooh, I didn't know that. I don't really eat at McDonalds so I wouldn't have noticed that.

  • the McDonnaldl's ordering screen has a number pad to type in your location number. the 1-9 keys are laid in a regular 3x3 grid and the 4th column has a 0 key and an extra long enter key. the line between the 0 and enter key does not line up with this 1-9 part of the grid. it's exactly one pixel off and this is very aggravating.

  • in reply to Shardovan

    Ah yes, I love it when I get that 'taking things literally' insight. I often write imaginary letters to songwriters, correcting their mistakes (I've never actually sent them!)....

    "Dear Mr Dylan,

    RE: Blowing in the Wind

    The transition from childhood to adulthood has never been measured by the number of streets a person has walked down. Please could you correct this as a matter of urgency.

    Yours etc...."

  • One thing that often amuses me is when I buy a packet of nuts, and on the packet it states, "This product may contain nuts". I know the message needs to be there for people who may have nut allergies, but if I'm buying a packet of nuts, I would like to think the product I'm buying will contain nuts. 

    Not sure if this counts as small details though, so apologies if I've gone off-topic. 

    Sometimes when I'm looking at photographs, I'll notice things that other people don't, like things in the background that other people may consider insignificant. I can often be told, "Trust you to notice that". Laughing

  • Love that trumpet one by the way. I’ll have to hunt that down. Talking of songs, there’s this old boy band one that was playing while I was in the waiting room for my first autism assessment session. Think it might be N Sync. Not my cup of tea at all and makes three minutes feel like an eternity. Anyway, the lyrics go ‘I don’t care who you are, who you’ve been, what you did, as long as you love me’. That’s very accepting - a serial killer would qualify. And it’s very one sided and self-absorbed too. Oh it doesn’t matter that you did all that horrific stuff, the main thing is that you’re giving me narcissistic supply. 

  • Love how wide ranging this thread could be. One I’m always noticing is the epidemic that is people saying ‘the thing is is…’ I’m not trying to be a grammar nazi, I’m just genuinely baffled how widespread this phenomenon now is when it seems much harder to not just get ‘the thing is THAT’ intuitively right.