Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[DoubleD]

Perfume adds on TV. All of them are awful.

[yellowjack]

DoubleD said:

Perfume adds on TV. All of them are awful.

Are you my son? He's always on about this. They seldom tell you what the product is for, they don't say why you might want to buy it, and they never describe what it smells like or what ingredients are in it. All you get is some mini-movie melodrama, and the name of the product. Completely useless in terms of making a buying decision, because you pretty much have to go to a perfume counter and try the stuff out to see how it smells before you buy it anyway.

Although there's one on at the moment with Natalie Portman in it, so that one gets a free pass. No idea what particular perfume she's advertising, but it gets the delightful Ms Portman on my telly a lot, and she's soooo...

[TheInsanity1234]

yellowjack said:

DoubleD said:

Perfume adds on TV. All of them are awful.

Are you my son? He's always on about this. They seldom tell you what the product is for, they don't say why you might want to buy it, and they never describe what it smells like or what ingredients are in it. All you get is some mini-movie melodrama, and the name of the product. Completely useless in terms of making a buying decision, because you pretty much have to go to a perfume counter and try the stuff out to see how it smells before you buy it anyway.

Although there's one on at the moment with Natalie Portman in it, so that one gets a free pass. No idea what particular perfume she's advertising, but it gets the delightful Ms Portman on my telly a lot, and she's soooo...

I read something somewhere that said the reason perfume adverts are so bizarre is because they have to try and advertise a smell, using vision and sound only.

Seems like they fail, a lot.

[Johnnytheboy]

TheInsanity1234 said:

I read something somewhere that said the reason perfume adverts are so bizarre is because they have to try and advertise a smell, using vision and sound only.

Seems like they fail, a lot.

They are also made for international use, so have to work anywhere, so far as they do work.

[Short Grain]

fking Fireworks!!

[yellowjack]

Annoying me today? Spending a great deal of time today cleaning and replacing a few consumables on my mountain bike.

Well, that wasn't so much the annoying bit, as was finding several faults that I haven't got the tools to fix, or can't be bothered because they're too fiddly.

So it's gone in to my local bicycle repair shop, and I'm going to pay for a service. Only to find that about a third of the items covered in the service, I've already done myself. Grrr!

I should have just hosed the damned thing down a bit, and handed it straight to them in the first place. By the time they fit a clean-sweep of fresh bearings and replace the (leaking) lever for the front brake I'll need to find the thick end of £160 to £200. And I need four tyres for my car too.

To top it off, when i got home from the bike shop, I found my garage door isn't working as it should. The cones that wind up the cables aren't winding up properly - one is crossing back up the cone. leading to mismatched tension on the door. I only had the damned thing repaired in May when we moved in too. Got to get on the phone to the repair company to test their guarantee on Monday. Wish me luck!

[lornemalvo]

Any TV show with "Celebrity" in the title, they're usually nonentities with zero talent for anything, reality shows like TOWIE, totally pointless and uninteresting. Panel shows like Jeremy Vine who choose guests designed to dumb down the level of the show, celebrities who bleat about climate change while producing more carbon than 50 ordinary people, People who appear on talk shows to flog their new book, Holiday Ripoff on the BBC who feel the need to send three wealthy women presenters to sunny climes even though all the "victims" being interviewed are in the UK, crappy programmes about people selling crap from their attics, unbelievably dull "characters" who travel around on a low budget antiques hunt, people who drive right up my chuff, even when I'm making decent progress up to the speed limit, Tony Blair, cold callers who ring me and start the conversation with a lie about "an accident I've had", footballers who take dives, David Dickinson, trying to ring big corporations like AEG and knowing I'll be on the phone for hours trying to speak to someone even though "my call is important to them", Carol Vorderman, flaming gays twittering on about dress design on daytime TV (I'm not homophobic in the least but it's just mind numbingly crap TV,) any Liberal Undemocrat but especially the opportunist Jo Swinson, people who drop litter, any cruelty to animals, Donald Trump trying and usually failing to string a coherent sentence together, Priti Patel, young people who think older people had it easy, overpriced coffee chains that don't pay tax, people who abuse the benefits system because they don't want to work, shoddy builders, main car dealers who extort money for sub par servicing, the predictable patter and dodgy tactics still used by some oily car salesmen, ISIL fighters / murderers who now want to come home, , . There are plenty more, but that'll do for now or I may come across as an old curmudgeon

[Lily the Pink]

lornemalvo said:

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In what respect is any of that "beyond reason" ?

[DavieW]

lornemalvo said:

Any TV show with "Celebrity" in the title, they're usually nonentities with zero talent for anything, reality shows like TOWIE, totally pointless and uninteresting. Panel shows like Jeremy Vine who choose guests designed to dumb down the level of the show, celebrities who bleat about climate change while producing more carbon than 50 ordinary people, People who appear on talk shows to flog their new book, Holiday Ripoff on the BBC who feel the need to send three wealthy women presenters to sunny climes even though all the "victims" being interviewed are in the UK, crappy programmes about people selling crap from their attics, unbelievably dull "characters" who travel around on a low budget antiques hunt, people who drive right up my chuff, even when I'm making decent progress up to the speed limit, Tony Blair, cold callers who ring me and start the conversation with a lie about "an accident I've had", footballers who take dives, David Dickinson, trying to ring big corporations like AEG and knowing I'll be on the phone for hours trying to speak to someone even though "my call is important to them", Carol Vorderman, flaming gays twittering on about dress design on daytime TV (I'm not homophobic in the least but it's just mind numbingly crap TV,) any Liberal Undemocrat but especially the opportunist Jo Swinson, people who drop litter, any cruelty to animals, Donald Trump trying and usually failing to string a coherent sentence together, Priti Patel, young people who think older people had it easy, overpriced coffee chains that don't pay tax, people who abuse the benefits system because they don't want to work, shoddy builders, main car dealers who extort money for sub par servicing, the predictable patter and dodgy tactics still used by some oily car salesmen, ISIL fighters / murderers who now want to come home, , . There are plenty more, but that'll do for now or I may come across as an old curmudgeon

The abridged version......modern life.

[AlexC1981]

The impossibility of not eating a whole box of jaffa cakes once you have opened them. I don't even think they are all that great, yet in they go one by one

[talksthetorque]

AlexC1981 said:

The impossibility of not eating a whole box of jaffa cakes once you have opened them. I don't even think they are all that great, yet in they go one by one

They've made it easier by reducing from 12 to 10.

[jet_noise]

Lily the Pink said:

lornemalvo said:

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In what respect is any of that "beyond reason" ?

Agreed.

But, but Carol Vorderman? Phwoar more like

[MartG]

lornemalvo said:

Any TV show with "Celebrity" in the title, they're usually nonentities with zero talent for anything...

I find it really strange that despite 'celebrities' on panel shows repeatedly demonstrating to everyone how dumb and ignorant they actually are, the masses still regard them as role models

[DoubleD]

MartG said:

lornemalvo said:

Any TV show with "Celebrity" in the title, they're usually nonentities with zero talent for anything...

I find it really strange that despite 'celebrities' on panel shows repeatedly demonstrating to everyone how dumb and ignorant they actually are, the masses still regard them as role models

Celebs are just normal people who are famous, so they aren't going to be any more intelligent than if they weren't a celeb.

[MartG]

DoubleD said:

MartG said:

lornemalvo said:

Any TV show with "Celebrity" in the title, they're usually nonentities with zero talent for anything...

I find it really strange that despite 'celebrities' on panel shows repeatedly demonstrating to everyone how dumb and ignorant they actually are, the masses still regard them as role models

Celebs are just normal people who are famous, so they aren't going to be any more intelligent than if they weren't a celeb.

But many of them display a level of ignorance which is absolutely astounding - I can only assume that they concentrated on their little showbiz world from an early age and didn't learn anything about the world outside their personal media bubble

[DoubleD]

MartG said:

DoubleD said:

MartG said:

lornemalvo said:

Any TV show with "Celebrity" in the title, they're usually nonentities with zero talent for anything...

I find it really strange that despite 'celebrities' on panel shows repeatedly demonstrating to everyone how dumb and ignorant they actually are, the masses still regard them as role models

Celebs are just normal people who are famous, so they aren't going to be any more intelligent than if they weren't a celeb.

But many of them display a level of ignorance which is absolutely astounding - I can only assume that they concentrated on their little showbiz world from an early age and didn't learn anything about the world outside their personal media bubble

I wonder how you would get on in front of a large audience and a camera crew.

[Cantaloupe]

DoubleD said:

I wonder how you would get on in front of a large audience and a camera crew.

I still think I could name more than a couple of 20th Century US presidents,
or on what continent is Chad situated, even under that huge pressure
of being in a room with people and cameras.

[DoubleD]

Cantaloupe said:

DoubleD said:

I wonder how you would get on in front of a large audience and a camera crew.

I still think I could name more than a couple of 20th Century US presidents,
or on what continent is Chad situated, even under that huge pressure
of being in a room with people and cameras.

Give it a go and see how you get on, I bet its tougher than you think.

[nonsequitur]

DoubleD said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/smilies.htm

I wonder how you would get on in front of a large audience and a camera crew.

He is looking at it from outside the celebrity bubble, as a 'regular' person. So he is criticising from that perspective and not from any desire to be a so-called celebrity.

[Frank7]

DoubleD said:

Cantaloupe said:

DoubleD said:

I wonder how you would get on in front of a large audience and a camera crew.

I still think I could name more than a couple of 20th Century US presidents,
or on what continent is Chad situated, even under that huge pressure
of being in a room with people and cameras.

Give it a go and see how you get on, I bet its tougher than you think.

What, to name a couple of 20th century U.S. presidents?
I’ve just listed 14 off the top of my head, although I included McKinley, but as he was assassinated in 1901, I think that he counts.
I know that Chad is in Africa, and was a French colony, but I studied both French and U.S. history at school, and after I left school, but it would come as no surprise to me that whole swathes of people wouldn’t know where Chad was.
I’m pretty sure that I could dredge all that up in front of a camera, but I have no desire to do so.