Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ColinJ]

If I remember rightly, there's a London Road in Blackburn. Again, going nowhere, being just a part of a council estate.😏

There is a London Road up here, below Stoodley Pike, 350+ km from London!

It isn't even a road!

I'm finding that Waitrose Christmas advert with Keira Knightley deeply irritating.

And it runs for 4 minutes!

All companies' video adverts, at any time of year, starring any actor are deeply irritating!!! I pay extra Netflix, Prime, and YouTube monthly fees to get ad-free content. I don't watch much broadcast TV these days, but when I do I always record it and play it back later so I can skip any ads.

 

[raleighnut]

There is a London Road up here, below Stoodley Pike, 350+ km from London!

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It isn't even a road!



All companies' video adverts, at any time of year, starring any actor are deeply irritating!!! I pay extra Netflix, Prime, and YouTube monthly fees to get ad-free content. I don't watch much broadcast TV these days, but when I do I always record it and play it back later so I can skip any ads.

Ah but it would have been a road in the past

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Can you find an Accrington Road though!🤔 This is the find we wait for with baited breath, if one exists at all that is!!🧐 😉

There's one in Blackburn:

 

[ColinJ]

Ah but it would have been a road in the past

The horse equivalent of a road, yes! A few hundred years ago the Calder valley below was a swampy woodland and packhorse trails like that over the hills were the way to get around.

 

[Jameshow]

Ah but it would have been a road in the past

M62... From Colin's past!

 

[No Ta Doctor]

The horse equivalent of a road, yes! A few hundred years ago the Calder valley below was a swampy woodland and packhorse trails like that over the hills were the way to get around.

The only High Street in the UK without a Starbucks and Costa, though you might find Boots there.

There was a Roman road on it, hence the name. And up until ten years ago it was the only place in England with resident golden eagles (Riggindale valley) - I did some protection for them with the RSPB as a teenager.

 

[classic33]

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discover...A71/with/E9014B0B-A39A-4C08-B243-48F71BFB333A

The only High Street in the UK without a Starbucks and Costa, though you might find Boots there.

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There was a Roman road on it, hence the name. And up until ten years ago it was the only place in England with resident golden eagles (Riggindale valley) - I did some protection for them with the RSPB as a teenager.

Camped down by the remains of the old bridge, just out of shot on the bottom right of the picture in March 94. Doing the mountain leadership summer training in knee deep snow.

 

[Dadam]

There is a London Road up here, below Stoodley Pike, 350+ km from London!

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It isn't even a road!

Is that where we all tried to fix your mudguard?

 

[ColinJ]

Is that where we all tried to fix your mudguard?

It was very close to there. I think we had just ridden up to the start of the London Road but I can't remember if we had turned onto it at that point.

 

[Scaleyback]

" Trivial things " ?
Not trivial in my opinion, to what do I refer ? Adverts
Sorry for the bold print, I needed to stress the point.
Whatever happened to the ' Advertising Standards Authority ' ? Their remit . . .
" We respond to concerns and complaints from consumers and businesses and take action to ban ads which are misleading, harmful, offensive or irresponsible. As well as responding to complaints we monitor ads to check they're following the rules. "
Ban Ads that are " misleading " Well that is about 95% of them isn't it ? We are now expected to accept many hours of gratuitous lies ' beamed ' at us daily. Have you ever succeeded in changing to a ' Ad supported ' TV channel and not ' landing ' slap bang in the middle of another commercial break ? Are they watching us ? Is there an algorithm that knows when I'm changing channel ? No wonder the moral fabric of society has decayed to the point where many accept the likes of Boris Johnson & Donald Trump, et al spewing their version of the truth. Adverts, ban them all, they are a time consuming, brain washing abomination.

P. S Good manners prevents me telling you what I really think.

 

[Alex321]

" Trivial things " ?
Not trivial in my opinion, to what do I refer ? Adverts
Sorry for the bold print, I needed to stress the point.
Whatever happened to the ' Advertising Standards Authority ' ? Their remit . . .
" We respond to concerns and complaints from consumers and businesses and take action to ban ads which are misleading, harmful, offensive or irresponsible. As well as responding to complaints we monitor ads to check they're following the rules. "
Ban Ads that are " misleading " Well that is about 95% of them isn't it ? We are now expected to accept many hours of gratuitous lies ' beamed ' at us daily. Have you ever succeeded in changing to a ' Ad supported ' TV channel and not ' landing ' slap bang in the middle of another commercial break ? Are they watching us ? Is there an algorithm that knows when I'm changing channel ? No wonder the moral fabric of society has decayed to the point where many accept the likes of Boris Johnson & Donald Trump, et al spewing their version of the truth. Adverts, ban them all, they are a time consuming, brain washing abomination.

P. S Good manners prevents me telling you what I really think.

You obviously use "misleading" to mean something different to the ASA (and most others I think).

Many adverts seem utterly pointless to me - I wonder why they thoink what they are saying will make people more likely to buy their product. And many are also completely irrelevcant to the product.

But few of them actually make claims for the product which aren't true.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

You obviously use "misleading" to mean something different to the ASA (and most others I think).

Many adverts seem utterly pointless to me - I wonder why they thoink what they are saying will make people more likely to buy their product. And many are also completely irrelevcant to the product.

But few of them actually make claims for the product which aren't true.

The word "true" being used in this context as "the company can show that there are facts that support it if challenged"

as opposed to "the impression given to the average person watching if correct in the ways they are likely to take it"

 

[Webbo2]

When you get asked to sign an online petition which you do. But before your signature is accepted it wants a donation or you have share.
Neither of which I wish to do so you’ve just lost my signature.

 

[ColinJ]

" Trivial things " ?
Not trivial in my opinion, to what do I refer ? Adverts

AAAAAAARGH - YES!!!

I am waiting today to see just how effing annoying Xiaomi will be before I unsubscribe from their mailing list. So far today they have already sent me 6 separate marketing messages***, including 2 for tablets. The reason that they have my details in the first place is because I bought an expensive (ish) tablet from them a few weeks ago, and I certainly don't have the money or the need for another one!


*** Which, clearly, are basically targeted adverts.

 

[ColinJ]

The only High Street in the UK without a Starbucks and Costa, though you might find Boots there.

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There was a Roman road on it, hence the name. And up until ten years ago it was the only place in England with resident golden eagles (Riggindale valley) - I did some protection for them with the RSPB as a teenager.

I saw scores of people there who really looked like they wanted a Starbucks or Costa but definitely did not need 'Boots'...!

I was sent on a business course once in the mid-1980s, stopping at the Haweswater hotel in the Lake District. We got a free afternoon and were dropped off at the car park at the end of the reservoir, and from there walked up into the mountains to do a circuit of Haweswater.

The car park was full of cars. 50% of the cars had people sat in them, the car radios on, the occupants drinking from flasks, reading newspapers and so on. The people from the other cars were having picnics - in the car park! I'm not kidding - they had moved a couple of yards from their cars and that was it! They could have gone a couple of hundred yards up a footpath and enjoyed fantastic elevated views of the reservoir and its surrounding mountains, but they didn't bother ...