NWR Silly Little Things That Annoy You

Steve Slatcher said:
Symphony orchestras are also at a volume that can damage hearing. Not so much of an issue for audiences unless they are also exposed to other loud noises, but orchestra members are exposed over long periods of rehearsing as well as performing, and at least some of them use ear plugs designed to attenuate all frequencies equally.
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Screens were introduced a long time ago in both orchestras and show pits with sound boxes also used in the latter.

Even for non 'noisy' works the size of music stands adds as a deflector and people do take others hearing most seriously.
 
Alex Jagger said:
Screens were introduced a long time ago in both orchestras and show pits with sound boxes also used in the latter.

Even for non 'noisy' works the size of music stands adds as a deflector and people do take others hearing most seriously.
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What do the screens and sounds boxes look like, and how do they work? Do you have any pictures or links? (I'm not having much luck with Google!) There must be quite a balancing act to protect ears while getting the correct sounds out into the audience.
 
Steve Slatcher said:
What do the screens and sounds boxes look like, and how do they work? Do you have any pictures or links? (I'm not having much luck with Google!) There must be quite a balancing act to protect ears while getting the correct sounds out into the audience.
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Orchestra screens are totally clear perspex - like a windscreen - that get put between brass and strings or percussion and wind say to reduce the direct impact. Sound boxes are literally soundproof rooms built into the pit - drums nearly always have them now and often brass, most show music is mic'ed up and through a mixing desk obviously.

If you look at enough you tube orchestral works you will spot them but they are designed to be unobtrusive/see through of course.
 
Alex Jagger said:
Orchestra screens are totally clear perspex - like a windscreen - that get put between brass and strings or percussion and wind say to reduce the direct impact. Sound boxes are literally soundproof rooms built into the pit - drums nearly always have them now and often brass, most show music is mic'ed up and through a mixing desk obviously.

If you look at enough you tube orchestral works you will spot them but they are designed to be unobtrusive/see through of course.
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Thank you. I haven't been to any shows recently, and I can't say I have seen them at any classical concerts, but at least I now know what to look out for.
 
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Cookies in general, but, more specifically, when you get an option to manage cookies and you are presented with a huge list of cookie settings and some have to switches - one is already set off but the other is set on. This means I have to scroll through the whole list switching off the ones that are switched on. You can tell by how small the scroll bar is in the example below that there are quite a lot of cookie settings I had to switch off. And I'm not even sure what the example below means - e.g. is it that out of 41 vendors only 13 have a legitimate interest? Or is it some other meaning?

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At least some sites let you "Reject All" to save time.
 
Paul Anderson said:
Cookies in general, but, more specifically, when you get an option to manage cookies and you are presented with a huge list of cookie settings and some have to switches - one is already set off but the other is set on. This means I have to scroll through the whole list switching off the ones that are switched on. You can tell by how small the scroll bar is in the example below that there are quite a lot of cookie settings I had to switch off. And I'm not even sure what the example below means - e.g. is it that out of 41 vendors only 13 have a legitimate interest? Or is it some other meaning?

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At least some sites let you "Reject All" to save time.
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Browse in Firefox Incognito and it deletes them all immediately.
 
The plethora of adverts which have adopted the strap line "My [whatever], My Rules". The purpose is to imply that buying this burger/depilatory product/vest is empowering. The nadir might be the current Tube ad declaring "My bush, my rules" which, you will be shocked to learn, has nothing to do with horticulture and everything to do with lasers.
 
Alistair Scott said:
The plethora of adverts which have adopted the strap line "My [whatever], My Rules". The purpose is to imply that buying this burger/depilatory product/vest is empowering. The nadir might be the current Tube ad declaring "My bush, my rules" which, you will be shocked to learn, has nothing to do with horticulture and everything to do with lasers.
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What a time to be alive
 
Cookie banners and privacy statements are considerably more than a "silly thing that annoys me", and are rather things I hate with a passion.

They're fine in principle, but pointless in practice. How on earth is any user meant to give informed consent before they have even started using a website? As someone that uses WordPress as a blogging platform, and by virtue of that platform inevitably tracks and stored data, even I struggle to understand all the implications.
 
Enoying a couple of decent gigs recently, the crowd bouncing, "Goodnight, London" and...No Encore, NO ENCORE! What is the world coming to. An encore is the perfect time for old folk like me to boogie to a recognised song for a minute or two while the crowd surge forward, then make a dash for the exit or the merch stand.
 
receiving an email from my neighbour (who has only a passing interest in wine) recapping his first 2 days in Bordeaux. Dinner with the owners of Lafleur whilst enjoying an 82 - “is this supposed to be any good?”. Next day private tasting with the winemaker of the full the range of their 2024s.
 
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