The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
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Stephen King.
I don't like his ideas, his stories or his face.
I don't like his ideas, his stories or his face.
Between tedium and fright
Such is the song of the nether world
The hissing of rats
And the jarring chants of angels
Such is the song of the nether world
The hissing of rats
And the jarring chants of angels
Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
Modern Christmas TV adverts. Specifically the trend started by John Lewis, which changed the marketing tactics from "Hooray, it's Christmas, buy things" to "Go on, cry. Cry, y'bastards!"
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Especially the way that the JL adverts are treated as some kind of major cultural event.
Between tedium and fright
Such is the song of the nether world
The hissing of rats
And the jarring chants of angels
Such is the song of the nether world
The hissing of rats
And the jarring chants of angels
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Yeah, I don't get it at all.
On the subject of Christmas (which I do generally love), when you're merrily humming along to a Christmas song only to realise that it's Gary Glitter's Another Rock 'n Roll Christmas.
On the subject of Christmas (which I do generally love), when you're merrily humming along to a Christmas song only to realise that it's Gary Glitter's Another Rock 'n Roll Christmas.
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I'm completely immune to adverts trying to make me sentimental anyway, so they all just blur together into one commercialised morass for me.
Same thing goes for all the charity adverts with juicy close up shots of children crying. I'd have no confidence whatsoever that my £2 a month would actually do anything worthwhile; probably just line the pockets of someone on a 6-figure salary, or get thrown into their employees private pension fund.
Same thing goes for all the charity adverts with juicy close up shots of children crying. I'd have no confidence whatsoever that my £2 a month would actually do anything worthwhile; probably just line the pockets of someone on a 6-figure salary, or get thrown into their employees private pension fund.
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It's quite a nice summation of modern society that we actually treat it as one.Stormbringer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:16 pmEspecially the way that the JL adverts are treated as some kind of major cultural event.
It has replaced the Coca Cola trucks advert as the starting gun for consumer season. "That's right, buy EVERYTHING, ya shits".
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Idiotic business management structures, or the lack thereof. Though I have one line manager, I effectively have five managers. That bit in Office Space where Peter explains that whenever he makes a mistake, each of his managers comes to let him know about it? That's too bloody accurate to be funny anymore. And there's always that one manager who isn't really your manager but expects you to drop everything you're doing to placate their whims and meet their sudden, unexpected and unreasonable deadlines. And the manager who is never there when you need an answer from them, but will happily turn up and plonk a great, steaming work-turd on your desk at the worst possible times.
Yeah, one of those days.
Yeah, one of those days.
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The internet of shit.
My sisters bagged some lightbulbs which can be tied to Alexa/my router. "Alexa turn the landing lights on!" etc
Asked my sister what do we do when the lightbulbs eventually blow..."Umm....I haven't thought of that!"
My sisters bagged some lightbulbs which can be tied to Alexa/my router. "Alexa turn the landing lights on!" etc
Asked my sister what do we do when the lightbulbs eventually blow..."Umm....I haven't thought of that!"
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I don't understand that as a criticism; you do the same thing you do when any other bulb blows, surely.
Hue bulbs (which are LED based) are listed as having a lifespan of 15000 hours. I reckon even my most used bulbs will last me 10 years each.
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Heh. I was under the impression that the bulbs had some spangly expensive WiFi setup on the actual bulb that would be trashed when the bulb goes. Just seen it and they look like regular bulbs with a dongle you plonk somewhere.
Mind you though, a dongle and 2 bulbs is 60 quid. I'm not a Yorkshire man but...
Naturally this led me to look up other things that are Web connected. Wasn't long before I found the smart condom.
Mind you though, a dongle and 2 bulbs is 60 quid. I'm not a Yorkshire man but...
Naturally this led me to look up other things that are Web connected. Wasn't long before I found the smart condom.
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The bulbs do have built in wireless connectivity that you would dispose of when the LEDs die, at least if we're talking about Hue.
I am a Yorkshireman, and we kitted out almost our entire house with them. I can't pretend they're cheap, but so long as you buy them on sale they're not prohibitively expensive.
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Didn't realise you were a fellow Yorkshireman, Raid. Where abouts from?
Between tedium and fright
Such is the song of the nether world
The hissing of rats
And the jarring chants of angels
Such is the song of the nether world
The hissing of rats
And the jarring chants of angels
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Heh. I'm only technically a Yorkshireman in that I was born in Harrogate hospital. I lived in Darlington as a kid.