Surely the presence of plants reflects employers giving a shit about the employee environment and that this this is the true reason for happiness and productivity. Really come on... I don't look at a plant and feel happy, it's common sense.
You'd likely be surprised then. I work in a plant, and seeing a live plant can relieve stress. At least it does for me, much in the way a glass of water on a hot day can. Otherwise, the whole day is beige office interior or the drab metalic grey of machinery. That, and plants make places _smell_ better. (Offices in factories really aren't closed systems...)
So, as counter point, I look at a plant and feel happy. I mean, if it can survive here, then I probably can.
Groups of women with clipboards surrounding you trying to pick pocket when you hold the clipboard.
The horrible wedding ring women and the blokes that are always nearby.
The wrist bracelet creeps. Don't let them grab your wrist, they won't let go unless you pay (saw this happen).
Tricked by "helpful" man who gave us fake tickets in exchange for real money. I know. Naive.
These sets of cunts really pissed me off. I was glad to get back to to UK I felt safer, I didn't get the impression the police in Paris were tackling the issue.
Otherwise very nice and I should go again a bit wiser (just said that for a balanced post).
It's hard to keep off the tourist path on the first visit to Paris with an innocent child-like wife! Next time though I'll enjoy it and put more effort into finding the best places to go.
Outside of UK I've only been to Paris, never seen this kind of thing in London/Manchester but I've read about the same thing happening in Rome and Barcelona.
You're never a true tourist in any of the cities in the UK, you're still in your home country, so you're highly unlikely to be a target.
These crimes almost always target foreign tourists quite specifically, they're far easier (and usually also individually more profitable) marks for a multitude of reasons.
I'v been a tourist in London several times (before moving there last year). Never had anything like this happen to me. No crazy Roma ladies trying to scam you. Worst you'll get is homeless people asking for some change.
I've seen it and worse in both London and Manchester. I was attacked in Manchester several times for the heinous crime of being a student, which led to my changing Uni. Not a city I care to visit anytime soon.
You might be experiencing selection bias? I suspect that petty criminals tend to target perceived outsiders over locals - they are less canny and it is easier to avoid empathizing with your victim.
This could be it. I mostly use desktops. When I use a laptop I always use a connected mouse because trackpads are an impediment to me. So to reproduce this frustration you'd need to accidentally move the cursor away from the text control and then accidentally tap the trackpad again to invoke single click and move the focus away. I can see how this might seem like the browser has a mind of its own.
Programmer here, I get pissed off with a lot of things but backspace-in-a-browser isn't one of them, I like it and always have. Maybe I take for granted my intimate knowledge of how html and browsers work. I get much more annoyed with some of the seemingly nonsensical Mac conventions coming from Windows.
As another one who uses this feature often, I can remember how I discovered it a long time ago: accidentally pressing it once on a page and thinking "oh, that's useful", then regularly using it after that.
On the other hand, I'd rather Alt+Left be disabled inside text inputs, as I have quite a few times accidentally went back while trying to move the cursor.
The odd thing is that this shortcut is not mentioned in the Back button's tooltip of neither Firefox, IE, Opera, nor Chrome.
