The long-winded thread

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What do you that's long-winded?

Can be anything in your life/on your PC/tablet where you know there is a quicker way of doing it, but out of habit/stubbornness you still do it "your way".

My worst habit is looking for web links in my favourites. I'll often spend longer looking for it there, than if I just typed the address into my browser.
 
Making tea.
Always, ALWAYS in a pot. I don't even particularly prefer the taste of pot-tea over teabag-tea. My colleagues think I'm old fashioned and odd.

But you know what? Those extra few minutes away from my desk are worth it :)
 
Research before a purchase. I take far too long and investigate to frankly absurd levels which is the best [x] to buy for my needs. It can be frustrating but I think I also enjoy it :confused:
 
Waking up, although thats not so much choice as my incredibly intellegent unconcious alter ego, who can turn off an alarm on the other side of the room without waking up.

I do tend at work when on excel always trying to automate, taking a long time to do anything the first time, but never having to do it a second
 
There's a member on here, who shall remain nameless for now, who is the most massive fanny at everything you will ever meet. If there's a long way to do it, he does.

You know who you are!
 
[FnG]magnolia;29633332 said:
Research before a purchase. I take far too long and investigate to frankly absurd levels which is the best [x] to buy for my needs. It can be frustrating but I think I also enjoy it :confused:
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I do this sometimes, like when I was buying a keyboard, I was crippled by choice!
 
Yeah, I often spend far too long researching what I want to buy.

At times, it wouldn't even make a difference, most stuff is broadly the same and wouldn't actually make me feel regret at not getting something else.
 
Correcting typing errors. I'll backspace half a sentence to change a typing error instead of clicking/tapping the error and correcting the one letter.
 
adolf hamster said:
I do tend at work when on excel always trying to automate, taking a long time to do anything the first time, but never having to do it a second
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I do this as well. I think it genuinely saves time in the long run if it's a spreadsheet that you'll use for longer than ten minutes. It's also a matter of pride, though.

Stan_Lite said:
Correcting typing errors. I'll backspace half a sentence to change a typing error instead of clicking/tapping the error and correcting the one letter.
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I also do this.

I can't think of anything else, though.
 
The most long winded thing I do is usually around spedning too much time investigating ways to make long winded things less long winded.
 
I'm a bit mental when it comes to walking places, where i live the roads are grid like and i hate walking back down the same road i previously walked down. So i will go out of my way to walk down a different road.

Do the same at work, if i walk up a staircase one end, i will exit using the other.
 
Skyfall said:
I do this sometimes, like when I was buying a keyboard, I was crippled by choice!
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I'm the same - too much choice completely destroys me and I spend weeks or even months holding back trying to do research on a purchase. :(

I'm trying to buy a new piano at the moment and it's been 6 months already.
 
I spent many years using bookmarks only to store sites I stumbled across that I thought I would struggle to remember, whereas sites I visited frequently I would simply type in the browser every time. e.g. to come here I would type "forums.over" and use the autocomplete and then choose the forum from the forum jump, rather than favourites for each subforum I frequented.

Another anachronism I've thankfully grown out of is for many years, certainly into the Windows XP years I still used to use 8.3 file naming convention for everything that I chose the name of, not just for files but also for directories i.e. I would spend 10s thinking of a way to abbreviate the name of something down to 8 letters.

I manually type the 'signoff' on emails rather than having nothing or as part of a signature. I also put too much thought into it, e.g. if I am requesting something or thanking someone I will use "Thanks," but only if I haven't put that in the first line of the email (then to avoid repetition I will then signoff differently, perhaps "Regards,").

I query a small selection of databases at work quite often but I tend not to save any SQL queries and end up rewriting basically the same thing (joins etc) many times often. It would be a lot quicker if I had some pre-canned statements that I just edited each time I think.
 
HecFam said:
I'm a bit mental when it comes to walking places, where i live the roads are grid like and i hate walking back down the same road i previously walked down. So i will go out of my way to walk down a different road.

Do the same at work, if i walk up a staircase one end, i will exit using the other.
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Interesting - I am the opposite and will frequently use familiar routes even if they may not be the most efficient. So for example if I know how to get from A to B, and also from B to C, then I will walk A>B>C even if it would be potentially quicker to try a new direct route A>C.
 
Oh and car journeys. I will travel an extra 10 miles on the motorway if it means not having to go through towns and deal with traffic lights, traffic, pedestrians, stop start...

Often quicker just to go through the towns but I can't stand them.
 
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