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Really minor annoyances

DaveH said:
The new style of advert on the SMB that floats up from the bottom every time a page reloads, and goes over the page content. I prefer when ads are embedded somewhere. Now it is a force of habit, open a thread and click the down arrow on the floaty advert.

It is extra annoying writing a post, when it appears on my iPad, which I use in landscape mode. The keyboard covers half the screen and then the advert covers what I am typing.
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drives me nuts on my phone.

in fact does my head in that much sometimes i just stop reading the forum for a bit
 

The redheaded lass on the Sainsbury's advert. Newly harvested carrots, turnips and other assorted fruit and veg do not grow with barcodes, so why are you scanning them, you dozy bugger?
 
DaveH said:
The new style of advert on the SMB that floats up from the bottom every time a page reloads, and goes over the page content. I prefer when ads are embedded somewhere. Now it is a force of habit, open a thread and click the down arrow on the floaty advert.

It is extra annoying writing a post, when it appears on my iPad, which I use in landscape mode. The keyboard covers half the screen and then the advert covers what I am typing.
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No surprise that people use ad blockers to get rid of such intrusiveness.
 
Martin F said:
No surprise that people use ad blockers to get rid of such intrusiveness.
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Yep. Embedded between posts, fine, it generates income for RTG and this site does not run for free. But when it gets in the way of what you are doing on a small screen, then it becomes intrusive.
 
BiG said:
Not sure if this is rapidly moving away from ‘minor’ but the number of times that a character reads an important plot issue from a text or whatever on a phone and there’s an extremely rapid and minuscule image of the phone with a whole load of other stuff on it, on my tv screen that I’m somehow supposed to focus on, is becoming increasingly annoying and ridiculous.

It’s the visual equivalent of actors whispering. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know about it being ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ and all that…. But it’s a f***ing entertainment and there’s an audience to engage out there. Otherwise there’s no point in filming the bastard thing.

(Plus, if the objective is to make it ultra realistic, then why can’t I hear the dialogue for the building ‘tension’ music. I don’t know about anybody else but I never walk around the shops wondering where the ominous piano soundtrack is coming from)
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I often stick the subtitles on as it's amazing how much dialogue that is actually impossible to hear is included in the subtitles.
 
How the barcode is on the last side when you're scanning in a supermarket. And why is the barcode always under the wrapper when you scan a block of cheese.
 
marsey said:
I often stick the subtitles on as it's amazing how much dialogue that is actually impossible to hear is included in the subtitles.
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Subtitles annoy me. It was one of the reasons I give up watching Dune.

LOUD BLASTING DRAMATIC MUSIC and now lets whisper and mumble so they turn the volume right up. LOUD AGAIN.

I spent the first half of the film not being able to hear or having my speakers vibrate. I was sitting with the remote turning it up and down constantly. I put subtitles on, but find I read them ahead of the 'action' and stop associating speech with individuals. I stopped actually watching the film and just focussed on reading the subtitle bar at the bottom.
 
When you buy a loaf of sliced bread and the crust slice is so thin as to be translucent.

The thin slice is rendered obsolete, and the adjacent slice is severely compromised too. Is it a crust? Is it a standard slice? It is both, yet neither.

As an introduction to a new loaf bread, it creates a dire first impression. And it happens very frequently of late. Time was that the term 'sliced bread' was synonymous with innovation. Today, it risks becoming a by-word for falling standards and sneering false promises.
 
not spavin said:
When you buy a loaf of sliced bread and the crust slice is so thin as to be translucent.

The thin slice is rendered obsolete, and the adjacent slice is severely compromised too. Is it a crust? Is it a standard slice? It is both, yet neither.

As an introduction to a new loaf bread, it creates a dire first impression. And it happens very frequently of late. Time was that the term 'sliced bread' was synonymous with innovation. Today, it risks becoming a by-word for falling standards and sneering false promises.
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On a similar theme

The thinnest sliced bread you can get seems to be "Medium"

Then its Thick, Toasty, Super Toasty

Why not start at "Thin"
 
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Every one literally everyone in my department

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I'm the lone 👍 - "like" not "love"
 
BiG said:
(Plus, if the objective is to make it ultra realistic, then why can’t I hear the dialogue for the building ‘tension’ music. I don’t know about anybody else but I never walk around the shops wondering where the ominous piano soundtrack is coming from)
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DaveH said:
Subtitles annoy me. It was one of the reasons I give up watching Dune.

LOUD BLASTING DRAMATIC MUSIC and now lets whisper and mumble so they turn the volume right up. LOUD AGAIN.

I spent the first half of the film not being able to hear or having my speakers vibrate. I was sitting with the remote turning it up and down constantly. I put subtitles on, but find I read them ahead of the 'action' and stop associating speech with individuals. I stopped actually watching the film and just focussed on reading the subtitle bar at the bott
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There's quite a few films at TV shows that I can't watch or stopped watching cos of this exact reason.

I'm sure someone in the know might be able to tell us why they do it, or if it's just because I'm listening through standard TV speakers and not some fancy sound bar

Latest one was SnowPiercer , daft switch-your-brain-off series that someone recommended, couldn't get past the first episode as they dialogue was just incoherent mumbling and I refuse to have the TV blasting on a Sunday night
 
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