[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

RichardUK wrote:I find the Beagle Street advert quite funny how his girlfriend is pushing him to get life insurance and he needs to do it right at that moment, I also like the over 50 plan adverts for how fake and ridiculous the conversions are in them

Taken at the wrong time (i.e. too early) those over 50 plans are a massive rip off. You end up paying far more than you get back out. And if you ever stop paying, you get nothing. It's a con and payments should be capped past a certain point.

Mafro wrote:This banana split.

As irritating as it is, that ad is nowhere near the awfulness of this other Nationwide ad:



JUST strawberry float OFF!

How about the Harris Fowler accident claim one where that guy crashes a wheelbarrow into the kerb? There's nothing particularly annoying about the ad itself but I find it funny that they've been using the exact same ad for at least 10 years now. You can even tell by the lower quality of the footage versus newer ads lol

They guy who tries to hide the fact he's not doing any work by loudly exclaiming what he's pretending to be doing or reading

"Why won't this open?"

"I don't believe this is happening!"

"What does he MEAN?!"

With outlook taking up one monitor all while on the other one the BBC homepage is in a browser shrunk down to the very corner which he thinks nobody can see

Ad7 wrote:They guy who tries to hide the fact he's not doing any work by loudly exclaiming what he's pretending to be doing or reading

"Why won't this open?"

"I don't believe this is happening!"

"What does he MEAN?!"

With outlook taking up one monitor all while on the other one the BBC homepage is in a browser shrunk down to the very corner which he thinks nobody can see

That sounds like me.

Empty desktop on display and now eating sandwiches

<]:^D wrote:wear shorts?

I'm wearing tailored chino shorts but they're probably worse for that for some reason.

It must just be the shape of my thighs.

Notifications on my phone that it won't let me dismiss!

For some reason certain apps can display notifications which cannot be swiped away - they just bounce right back at you. Now if it's a message telling me something unbelievably important (a countdown timer for the impending end of the world for example) then maybe that would be acceptable behaviour, but most of the time I just get stuck with pointless notifications filling my list that obscure anything that is actually useful!

Jenuall wrote:Notifications on my phone that it won't let me dismiss!

For some reason certain apps can display notifications which cannot be swiped away - they just bounce right back at you. Now if it's a message telling me something unbelievably important (a countdown timer for the impending end of the world for example) then maybe that would be acceptable behaviour, but most of the time I just get stuck with pointless notifications filling my list that obscure anything that is actually useful!

Which apps? It might be better to just stop them from notifying. I know some of the Android services won't let you tell them to go away, but there are ways of stopping them notifying you in the first place

Cuttooth wrote:On the topic of annoying mummy strawberry floaters from adverts I present this millennial nerd from the Beagle Street insurance ads:



Clearly not being capable of sorting out his own life insurance policy has led him to use his doorbell security camera to feel smug about chasing potential burglars away from his home.



He's appeared in a third advert for something equally banal that I can't remember with as equally a punchable face.

What's wrong with him?

Death's Head wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Notifications on my phone that it won't let me dismiss!

For some reason certain apps can display notifications which cannot be swiped away - they just bounce right back at you. Now if it's a message telling me something unbelievably important (a countdown timer for the impending end of the world for example) then maybe that would be acceptable behaviour, but most of the time I just get stuck with pointless notifications filling my list that obscure anything that is actually useful!

Which apps? It might be better to just stop them from notifying. I know some of the Android services won't let you tell them to go away, but there are ways of stopping them notifying you in the first place

Yeah I've disabled anything that I don't want to hear from at all, but it's more that there are apps which don't seem to understand that there are times when you value their notification and times when you don't!

For example the Amazon Prime Music application will provide a notification telling you what you are playing and giving you controls to pause, skip etc. Now that is useful when I am playing music and want to quickly control it, but when I've stopped playing music why the strawberry float won't you let me get rid of your notification!

Really don't like the 'new' GMail web browser/front end. It's now much slower to start up, and regularly seems to get stuck on "loading". It's such a non change as well.

KK wrote:Really don't like the 'new' GMail web browser/front end. It's now much slower to start up, and regularly seems to get stuck on "loading". It's such a non change as well.

I think you can still go back to the old view (at least for now...)

Jenuall wrote:For example the Amazon Prime Music application will provide a notification telling you what you are playing and giving you controls to pause, skip etc. Now that is useful when I am playing music and want to quickly control it, but when I've stopped playing music why the strawberry float won't you let me get rid of your notification!

You have to clear the currently playing list. It's a recent change that just seems pointless. If I've closed the app, it means I'm no longer wanting to listen to music, but now the app doesn't realise that. Same on a Kindle, except that's always been like it.

DarkRula wrote:

Jenuall wrote:For example the Amazon Prime Music application will provide a notification telling you what you are playing and giving you controls to pause, skip etc. Now that is useful when I am playing music and want to quickly control it, but when I've stopped playing music why the strawberry float won't you let me get rid of your notification!

You have to clear the currently playing list. It's a recent change that just seems pointless. If I've closed the app, it means I'm no longer wanting to listen to music, but now the app doesn't realise that. Same on a Kindle, except that's always been like it.

Exactly it's just bad design!

Wasps - what is even the point of them? Put them in the bin.

Preezy wrote:Wasps - what is even the point of them? Put them in the bin.

Evil version of Bees.

Preezy wrote:Wasps - what is even the point of them? Put them in the bin.

They are undeniable proof that God hates picnics.

Preezy wrote:Wasps - what is even the point of them? Put them in the bin.

Oh, come on - every GRcadian should know by now that Blu-Tack is the only correct way of dealing with them .