Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
Why is it that on 90% of car/bike repair shows they play rock music as a backdrop?
That and adverts with a "fresh" MOT or reading all the way down the advert with "no expense spared" and "needs for nothing" you find that the ABS /engine light is on and also needs new rear discs. But fortunately it's only a simple fix!
That and adverts with a "fresh" MOT or reading all the way down the advert with "no expense spared" and "needs for nothing" you find that the ABS /engine light is on and also needs new rear discs. But fortunately it's only a simple fix!
There seems to be a new thing in amateur advertising.
I refer to the description. 'Like new'.
I recently bought a set of alloy wheels that were so described.
So far, I've had to....
Heat two wheels and take out (a) a flat point and (b) a rim curl - both pothole damage.
Wire brush/flapwheel numerous spots of WFS (White Furry s
t) caused by pinholes/stone chips in the powder coat.
Use body filler on a few kerb bites.
So, shiny? Yes, Like new? Like new, my wrinkly arse.
caveat emptor, especially if buying sight unseen,
I refer to the description. 'Like new'.
I recently bought a set of alloy wheels that were so described.
So far, I've had to....
Heat two wheels and take out (a) a flat point and (b) a rim curl - both pothole damage.
Wire brush/flapwheel numerous spots of WFS (White Furry s
t) caused by pinholes/stone chips in the powder coat. Use body filler on a few kerb bites.
So, shiny? Yes, Like new? Like new, my wrinkly arse.
caveat emptor, especially if buying sight unseen,
SCEtoAUX said:
For me it's still just people. There are three people in the world I love (wife, son, brother), and another half dozen that I care about enough to know I'll be sad when they die.
In general though people annoy me beyond reason.
'Hell is other people'. (Jean Paul Sartre).In general though people annoy me beyond reason.
When you post a video on Youtube of a new housing development being built, and quote the address of the development from the builder's website, and some whiney pedant complains "but that's not in Cleveleys it's in Blackpool" 
Better tell the developer they've made a mistake then hadn't you, you sad pathetic specimen
Better tell the developer they've made a mistake then hadn't you, you sad pathetic specimen
The narrator of the TV programme on the early life of Winston Churchill who pronounced Lourenço Marques as "Lorenko Markwes" - that increased my beyond reason annoyance with a script that referred to the subject as "Churchill" rather than "Winston" even when describing his family and its influence on WSC.
There’s a National advertising campaign at the moment advising people to ‘go left’ in case of a problem on the motorway.
Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
Jonboy_t said:
There’s a National advertising campaign at the moment advising people to ‘go left’ in case of a problem on the motorway.
Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
Perhaps an attempt to make people aware of the 'refuge' areas on smart motorways ? Of course you're buggered if you can't coast as far as the next one Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
MartG said:
Perhaps an attempt to make people aware of the 'refuge' areas on smart motorways ? Of course you're buggered if you can't coast as far as the next one
Put your hazards on and pray an overworked east European trucker doesnt knock you and your car into oblivion doesn't have the same catchy tune about it Jonboy_t said:
There’s a National advertising campaign at the moment advising people to ‘go left’ in case of a problem on the motorway.
Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
Because there are a substantial number of motorway drivers who are completely oblivious to the fact that there is a lane on the left at all, never mind hard shoulders or "Smart motorway" refuges.Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
A better use of public money would be an advertising campaign telling motorway drivers to "Keep to the left except when overtaking".*
How hard is that to understand?
Yes, persistent MLM's annoy me beyond reason and should have their licences revoked.
* In fact, why not display it on the overhead information gantry signs?
Edited by glenrobbo on Monday 29th March 14:02
My new UHD-ey television.
Which means that I can now 'benefit' from watching films in UHD/4k/whatever.
I don't want to feel like I was there on the set when it was filmed. I don't want a level of clarity which cuts through the grim reality of the scene being portrayed. Especially in historic type films, I want the scene shown with the dirt and grit and graininess that would have been there for the persons portrayed.
Like pubs without cigarette smoke, films without such character are a retrograde step.
Which means that I can now 'benefit' from watching films in UHD/4k/whatever.
I don't want to feel like I was there on the set when it was filmed. I don't want a level of clarity which cuts through the grim reality of the scene being portrayed. Especially in historic type films, I want the scene shown with the dirt and grit and graininess that would have been there for the persons portrayed.
Like pubs without cigarette smoke, films without such character are a retrograde step.
V8mate said:
My new UHD-ey television.
Which means that I can now 'benefit' from watching films in UHD/4k/whatever.
I don't want to feel like I was there on the set when it was filmed. I don't want a level of clarity which cuts through the grim reality of the scene being portrayed. Especially in historic type films, I want the scene shown with the dirt and grit and graininess that would have been there for the persons portrayed.
Like pubs without cigarette smoke, films without such character are a retrograde step.
Well.....Which means that I can now 'benefit' from watching films in UHD/4k/whatever.
I don't want to feel like I was there on the set when it was filmed. I don't want a level of clarity which cuts through the grim reality of the scene being portrayed. Especially in historic type films, I want the scene shown with the dirt and grit and graininess that would have been there for the persons portrayed.
Like pubs without cigarette smoke, films without such character are a retrograde step.
What you are really saying is that you don't want to see the film in all of its original glory. Over the years film transfers to videotape, and their subsequent broadcasts, have ranged from poor to average, because technology never really allowed anything better. Even going to the cinema meant looking at a print that got progressively grubbier every time it was shown.
These days though, scanning the original negatives and digital remastering have allowed the true quality of 35mm or 70mm film to be delivered onto our screens.
If you like film scratches, dirt, flicker, weave, PAL artefacts, all shown in standard definition in a 4x3 ratio then that's fine, but don't live under the impression that the films you talk of were of rubbish quality to start with and have been made better than you like by technology. It's a case that the techology has freed up what was originally there.
Edited by SCEtoAUX on Monday 29th March 21:16
glenrobbo said:
Jonboy_t said:
There’s a National advertising campaign at the moment advising people to ‘go left’ in case of a problem on the motorway.
Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
Because there are a substantial number of motorway drivers who are completely oblivious to the fact that there is a lane on the left at all, never mind hard shoulders or "Smart motorway" refuges.Who do they need to tell this to?!?! What person is grown up enough to be allowed a drivers license and a car, but is so thick that the second their engine management light comes on they just pull up in the third lane and think ‘bugger, guess I’ll have to walk it from here’?
Given the screen/air play the campaign has, it must be a £million+ jobby, to tell people to pull over if there’s a problem?! Am I missing something, or is this just mental?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfdQlSBc6Q
A better use of public money would be an advertising campaign telling motorway drivers to "Keep to the left except when overtaking".*
How hard is that to understand?
Yes, persistent MLM's annoy me beyond reason and should have their licences revoked.
* In fact, why not display it on the overhead information gantry signs?
Edited by glenrobbo on Monday 29th March 14:02
SCEtoAUX said:
V8mate said:
My new UHD-ey television.
Which means that I can now 'benefit' from watching films in UHD/4k/whatever.
I don't want to feel like I was there on the set when it was filmed. I don't want a level of clarity which cuts through the grim reality of the scene being portrayed. Especially in historic type films, I want the scene shown with the dirt and grit and graininess that would have been there for the persons portrayed.
Like pubs without cigarette smoke, films without such character are a retrograde step.
Well.....Which means that I can now 'benefit' from watching films in UHD/4k/whatever.
I don't want to feel like I was there on the set when it was filmed. I don't want a level of clarity which cuts through the grim reality of the scene being portrayed. Especially in historic type films, I want the scene shown with the dirt and grit and graininess that would have been there for the persons portrayed.
Like pubs without cigarette smoke, films without such character are a retrograde step.
What you are really saying is that you don't want to see the film in all of its original glory. Over the years film transfers to videotape, and their subsequent broadcasts, have ranged from poor to average, because technology never really allowed anything better. Even going to the cinema meant looking at a print that got progressively grubbier every time it was shown.
These days though, scanning the original negatives and digital remastering have allowed the true quality of 35mm or 70mm film to be delivered onto our screens.
If you like film scratches, dirt, flicker, weave, PAL artefacts, all shown in standard definition in a 4x3 ratio then that's fine, but don't live under the impression that the films you talk of were of rubbish quality to start with and have been made better than you like by technology. It's a case that the techology has freed up what was originally there.
nonsequitur said:
Last time on the M1 there were 'Keep Left Unless Overtaking' on the gantries.
You're assuming that they are reading such trivial things like road signs and overhead gantries.You go straight to the middle lane so you're less distracted by such trivialities and can direct more of your attention to where it's most required, your phone.
Edited by captain_cynic on Tuesday 30th March 10:49
captain_cynic said:
nonsequitur said:
Last time on the M1 there were 'Keep Left Unless Overtaking' on the gantries.
You're assuming that they are reading such trivial things like road signs and overhead gantries.You go straight to the middle lane so you're less distracted by such trivialities and can direct more of your attention to where it's most required, your phone.
Edited by captain_cynic on Tuesday 30th March 10:49
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