Pointless But It Does My Head In
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Buses with 'sorry, I'm not in service' on the display at the front, as if the bus is a fucking person. 
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Buses with 'sorry, I'm not in service' on the display at the front, as if the bus is a fucking person.
God, that's annoying. I also hate recorded messages played over the PA with the woman (and it's always, always a woman) saying "I am sorry, but [such-and-such] isn't working..." - as if a recorded voice on a hard disk somewhere is capable of expressing personal regret about something.
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Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Yeah, it normally just makes you think that if First Capital Connect really experience deep personal regret every time their delays cause someone 'inconvenience', then they'd stop it happening so often that it requires a prerecorded message.
The other thing that really winds me up is that in the midst of the entire fucking rail network collapsing they still keep playing the annoying officious announcements about not smoking or cycling or skating or whatever, just so that you're reminded every three minutes for the fucking hour that you're stood around being pissed off that although they fuck up their actual function on a weekly basis, nothing short of all out nuclear war could stop them being small minded and officious.
In fact, I'm now imagining a survivor in a post-apocalyptic london, walking between the flattened buildings and still smouldering fires eventually coming to a tall post, smoke blackened but still standing, from which hangs a single loudspeaker.
"We regret to announce that the 12:15 to Hertford North has been delayed by approximately - fivethousandtwohundredandfortyseven - minutes. First Capital Connect would like to apologize for the late running of this service."
He stops, aghast at this message from a world that he's almost forgotten.
"We would like to remind customers that it is against the law to ride a bicycle, rollerskate or skateboard anywhere on this station. It may be dangerous, and IS illegal."
sufi
lala
i like it when you get the public safety announcement across different speakers with a moment's delay so it's like an echo, i swear i heard a woman's voice at london bridge followed instantaneousy by a male voice with the same announcement on the next platform,
ideal implementation is pa speaker mounted with a cctv camera or two - face of the city
ideal implementation is pa speaker mounted with a cctv camera or two - face of the city
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
Ha, I remember getting a train in Seedneeee once.
There were continuous pre recorded announcements that the station (which was rather large...) was a Rubbish/Rubbish Bin-Free zone and that all passengers were to take their trash with them, immediately followed by messages that dropping rubbish was illegal and there was an instant fine for anyone caught.
The station, incidentally, had discarded things everywhere.
There were continuous pre recorded announcements that the station (which was rather large...) was a Rubbish/Rubbish Bin-Free zone and that all passengers were to take their trash with them, immediately followed by messages that dropping rubbish was illegal and there was an instant fine for anyone caught.
The station, incidentally, had discarded things everywhere.
arggh! So glad someone else shares my pedantic annoyance with these messages. There is also something passive aggressive about only apologizing specifically to those people who have been directly 'inconvenienced'. Just overall, those messages do my head in.
Called a garage yesterday and the sales drone on the other end opened with ... not "Hello" or "Good afternoon" ... but "HAVING A GREAT DAY HERE AT [X]! My name is [y], how may I help you today?"
I called back later and got the same thing, they obviously all do it.
I called back later and got the same thing, they obviously all do it.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
I always wanted this to happen. I lvoe the exactitude of the announcements too : "approximately 23 minutes". Like you can fucking tell, you lying bastards.
i like it when you get the public safety announcement across different speakers with a moment's delay so it's like an echo, i swear i heard a woman's voice at london bridge followed instantaneousy by a male voice with the same announcement on the next platform,
ideal implementation is pa speaker mounted with a cctv camera or two - face of the city
I know those voices. Male and female for different platforms. If you wait long enough they synchronise like some pan-gender overlord. Sounds ace
you
Well-known member
mmmmmm, I loath this, I imagine matrix style fields of myopic tele-bods repeating the same stock phrases over and over again, going home to their rent-a-pods to play WI, getting their daily 'exercise' quote filled in front of a glaring LED screen..... farming humans and capital, great....... but you put a chicken in cage for some eggs and sheeeeeiiit.......
I dunno, im grumpy
you
Well-known member
hahaha, great Tea!
I do like the idea, like I like good fiction compositions and themes..... the reality on the other hand.....
The softening and integration of technology keeps me awake at night, forums are bad enough, but touch screen everything and apps for your diet and exercise? Please. Don't even get me started on Kindles
I do like the idea, like I like good fiction compositions and themes..... the reality on the other hand.....
The softening and integration of technology keeps me awake at night, forums are bad enough, but touch screen everything and apps for your diet and exercise? Please. Don't even get me started on Kindles
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
People who can't use "reply to all" for emails.
Whenever I try to organize something that involves me and Alison and someone else, I send an email to the third party with Alison CC'ed in and they almost invariably just reply to me, so I have to forward it on to Alison manually. It's just rude - it always feels a bit like they're just ignoring her because they don't think she'll have an opinion, even if it's actually just that they're incapable of using email properly.
Whenever I try to organize something that involves me and Alison and someone else, I send an email to the third party with Alison CC'ed in and they almost invariably just reply to me, so I have to forward it on to Alison manually. It's just rude - it always feels a bit like they're just ignoring her because they don't think she'll have an opinion, even if it's actually just that they're incapable of using email properly.