NWR Silly Little Things That Annoy You

Speaking of 'what cheeses me off' (I'm beyond 'silly' & 'little' I think); why is it that software which on the whole works tolerable well - like airline ticket booking websites for example - is constantly changed to no apparent benefit, forcing you to refamiliarise yourself with it endlessly, yet software which is largely antiquated rubbish never improves?
Example - traffic lights. They put that bloody amber light in a hundred years ago, and today, even when we have camera-controlled everything, self-driving cars, and advanced technology, when a lone car comes up a side street late at night, stops all the main-road traffic, then turns out with its green, the damn stupid amber light has to come on and waste another five seconds for no reason, except no-one cares enough to make traffic lights even slightly efficient, or utilize the traffic surveillance camera which is already sitting there.
Feels like I've spent years sitting at red lights, watching an empty intersection, waiting for some idiot programming to do its thing, wondering how anyone could be satisfied with the quality of the work they've done in efficiently controlling traffic.
The answer is, of course, that they couldn't give a sh*t. It certainly shows, at any rate.
 
Graeme Gee said:
Speaking of 'what cheeses me off' (I'm beyond 'silly' & 'little' I think); why is it that software which on the whole works tolerable well - like airline ticket booking websites for example - is constantly changed to no apparent benefit, forcing you to refamiliarise yourself with it endlessly, yet software which is largely antiquated rubbish never improves?
Example - traffic lights. They put that bloody amber light in a hundred years ago, and today, even when we have camera-controlled everything, self-driving cars, and advanced technology, when a lone car comes up a side street late at night, stops all the main-road traffic, then turns out with its green, the damn stupid amber light has to come on and waste another five seconds for no reason, except no-one cares enough to make traffic lights even slightly efficient, or utilize the traffic surveillance camera which is already sitting there.
Feels like I've spent years sitting at red lights, watching an empty intersection, waiting for some idiot programming to do its thing, wondering how anyone could be satisfied with the quality of the work they've done in efficiently controlling traffic.
The answer is, of course, that they couldn't give a sh*t. It certainly shows, at any rate.
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Don't French traffic lights go straight to green?
 
On the old thread I said something like "middle aged musicians playing at the Albert Hall" and then I said something about "where their careers go to die in front of Daily Mail readers".

So today on FaceTube a bloody video turned up of Eric Clapton PLUS Stevie Winwood - Live at the fecking Albert Hall. In the Venn diagram of utter anti-Paul things this is the bullseye.



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Apple Events.

A procession of odd (though of course inclusive) smarmy Snr Vice Nobodies proclaiming a movable widget as a breakthrough.
In the decade since Steve Job’s passing we have seen proof positive that to be the worlds most successful company has nothing to do with innovation or creativity......Sad.
 
I must say, the annual "Best iPhone EVerrr" line annoys me to the point of amusement. I mean, like, durr.... ;-)
Apple's strength has always been the taming and commercialisation of previous innovations. Can't think of many things that they really invented as such. Perhaps iPhone was groundbreaking?
 
Alex Lake said:
I must say, the annual "Best iPhone EVerrr" line annoys me to the point of amusement. I mean, like, durr.... ;-)
Apple's strength has always been the taming and commercialisation of previous innovations. Can't think of many things that they really invented as such. Perhaps iPhone was groundbreaking?
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Alex,
I think they pretty well originated the tablet computer I recall my friend having a “Newton” long before Ipad became the name.
Smartphone?
Prior to the Iphone I don't think the other devices were very touchy or smart.

But if you were to have watched the series of these outpourings you’d be forgiven for thinking they actually invented the phone, the watch, ...........heck even music itself!
 
Paul J a i n e s said:
On the old thread I said something like "middle aged musicians playing at the Albert Hall" and then I said something about "where their careers go to die in front of Daily Mail readers".
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This made me laugh out loud, so true! Most of these relics should have stopped playing in public the same time they gave up drugs. Of course, I first knew I was "getting on a bit" when I heard Hendrix being played on Radio 2....
 
Paul J a i n e s said:
On the old thread I said something like "middle aged musicians playing at the Albert Hall" and then I said something about "where their careers go to die in front of Daily Mail readers".

So today on FaceTube a bloody video turned up of Eric Clapton PLUS Stevie Winwood - Live at the fecking Albert Hall. In the Venn diagram of utter anti-Paul things this is the bullseye.



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this really resonates after the Jeff Beck memorial the other day. Just a turgid, abject mess of middle-aged men playing pentatonics over each other. And Clapton the worst of the lot. Gary Clarke Jr. and Derek Trucks (as ever) the only saving graces.
 
Paul J a i n e s said:
On the old thread I said something like "middle aged musicians playing at the Albert Hall" and then I said something about "where their careers go to die in front of Daily Mail readers".

So today on FaceTube a bloody video turned up of Eric Clapton PLUS Stevie Winwood - Live at the fecking Albert Hall. In the Venn diagram of utter anti-Paul things this is the bullseye.



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Overly kind to refer to those gents as middle aged.
 
Raymond Tilney said:
Alex,
I think they pretty well originated the tablet computer I recall my friend having a “Newton” long before Ipad became the name.
Smartphone?
Prior to the Iphone I don't think the other devices were very touchy or smart.

But if you were to have watched the series of these outpourings you’d be forgiven for thinking they actually invented the phone, the watch, ...........heck even music itself!
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Well, it all depends on your viewpoint. GRiD had something a few years before Newton, but Apple did add refinements.
Similar with SmartPhones. I had a Windows Phone before my iPhone. Palm were also doing good stuff around then. Apple refined it and ditched the concept that one needed a stylus.
I'm not saying they weren't creative, but they've generally fought shy of introducing a totally new product.
 
David Pope said:
Malcolm Sargent may have conducted at the Albert Hall more than 200 times. I suppose that whether he could truly be called an artist is a bit debatable.
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Thom's point taken. By sheer fluke I am sample-listening to the Warner 18-CD box of Sargent's EMI recordings this morning.
The book says "by the time he became a fixture at the proms in 1947..." and
"...conducting about half of each season's 50 or so concerts himself."
Later, "For the next two decades he was the Proms supremo, accumulating an eventual total of 500 concerts as conductor-in-chief."
On that basis I think we could conclude he indeed has 200+ concerts in the RAH!

I always loved Beecham's great double insult where he described Karajan as "a sort of musical Malcolm Sargent." Brutal!
 
David Pope said:
Malcolm Sargent may have conducted at the Albert Hall more than 200 times. I suppose that whether he could truly be called an artist is a bit debatable.
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Personally I wouldn't call Clapton an artist either, much as I admire him as a guitarist. It's even worse when they call pop singers of clearly limited talent "artists". Put that down as another silly annoyance of mine.
 
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Paul J a i n e s said:
On the old thread I said something like "middle aged musicians playing at the Albert Hall" and then I said something about "where their careers go to die in front of Daily Mail readers".

So today on FaceTube a bloody video turned up of Eric Clapton PLUS Stevie Winwood - Live at the fecking Albert Hall. In the Venn diagram of utter anti-Paul things this is the bullseye.



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Im going to out annoy myself.

Clapton Winwood....RECORDED BY SOME DAILY MAIL NUMNut.... who then posted it on youtube.

The video is the full concert almost.... why why why?

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Radio Broadcasters wasting airtime.

Why on earth do radio broadcasters not accept that travel bulletins are in this day an age a waste of time.
Similarly on a slow news day why not curtail the bulletin.
I have just listened to Johnnie Walker’s 70’s show on catch up and ten minutes was wasted on this drivel
 
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