Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Chief Broom]

Daily Express fear based click bait on my start up page

 

[Andy in Germany]

Daily Express fear based click bait on my start up page

I hear you, and then people assuming I'm in danger/shouldn't do something or Germany is on fire because they've read fear based clickbait.

 

[Windle]

Daily Express fear based click bait on my start up page

I fully agree too, some of the stuff you see is shocking, utter scaremongering bowlocks, it must mess with the heads of those of a sensitive disposition. No wonder society suffers from mental health problems.
And don't get me started on bloody soaps, the wife watches them not me, but I can't help but notice the constant stream of dysfunctional behaviour and sensationalist tripe they spout. I've said many a time ~ just think if these programmes were full of positive, cheerful stuff instead, how much that would improve the general mood and well being of the viewers and society in general.

 

[matticus]

And don't get me started on bloody soaps, the wife watches them not me, but I can't help but notice the constant stream of dysfunctional behaviour and sensationalist tripe they spout. I've said many a time ~ just think if these programmes were full of positive, cheerful stuff instead, how much that would improve the general mood and well being of the viewers and society in general.

Archers FM ?

 

[captain nemo1701]

I fully agree too, some of the stuff you see is shocking, utter scaremongering bowlocks, it must mess with the heads of those of a sensitive disposition. No wonder society suffers from mental health problems.
And don't get me started on bloody soaps, the wife watches them not me, but I can't help but notice the constant stream of dysfunctional behaviour and sensationalist tripe they spout. I've said many a time ~ just think if these programmes were full of positive, cheerful stuff instead, how much that would improve the general mood and well being of the viewers and society in general.

Soaps are just heroin for the masses. I see they're moaning that Coronation St isn't being 'realistic' now?. Eh?...soaps are mass produced dramas mainly driven by endless conflict between the characters. Why do people think they're referred to as operas?...some actual operas are tragedies and soaps are never-ending tabloid-gossip mini-tragedies with the characters in perpetual conflict. If they reflected real life they'd be so boring, no-one would watch them. If you watch DeadEnders, the characters always are having arguments often within 30 seconds of entering a scene. Plus they went on a boating trip down the Thames....what possibly could happen?. A work colleague who once said it was their favourite show, thinks its rubbish now. I knew that in 1985....

 

[Beebo]

Viewing figures are through the floor.
Fewer than 4 million per episode of Eastenders and Corrie.
Does anyone under 35 watch them?

 

[Electric_Andy]

Viewing figures are through the floor.
Fewer than 4 million per episode of Eastenders and Corrie.
Does anyone under 35 watch them?

A lot of people I have encountered lead their lives like that too, so for some it's a fly on the wall documentary!

 

[matticus]

Viewing figures are through the floor.
Fewer than 4 million per episode of Eastenders and Corrie.
Does anyone under 35 watch them?

Well, yeah, they're well down on their hey-day: but ask a 2024 TV Exec how much he'd pay for a show getting 4million viewers 3 times a week ...

 

[Chris S]

Facebook posting items about Birmingham Alabama on my page instead of Birmingham UK.

 

[Windle]

A lot of people I have encountered lead their lives like that too, so for some it's a fly on the wall documentary!

That's something I've started to wonder, it seems lot more people behave like ar@#holes than years ago, is this because this kind of behaviour is being normalised on TV?

 

[Electric_Andy]

That's something I've started to wonder, it seems lot more people behave like ar@#holes than years ago, is this because this kind of behaviour is being normalised on TV?

probably has something to do with it yes

 

[Windle]

The council ~ vacuuming the road gullies out at half seven this morning, it doesn't bother me as I'm already up by then but I'm sure they're not supposed to start that early. More annoying is the fact that they'll only be doing it because the gullies are full of road chippings, not swept up properly when they surface dressed the (not too bad) road through our village last year. The bloody things are everywhere and the constant rain of late has left piles of them in various places on the road like chipping 'sandbanks'. Ironically the ones that weren't swept up are now being joined by their mates who've already decided to part company with the road surface in numerous locations giving the road a quirky Paris- Roubaix vibe .

 

[Beebo]

Just taken this photo in Lidl.
Pricing is all over the place.
£2.99 reduced to £4.99.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I'd want to be paid £4.99 to display that in my house for one day

 

[matticus]

Ditto. I'm actually quite annoyed that some (hopefully not very many) people have been persuaded to buy those!