Room 101

[Gray]

Websites asking if you accept their cookies or not. 99 percent of the time everyone says yes so why bother asking.

...and it's laughable how big, clear and easy they make it to 'accept all'.
Given the choice (and we usually are now) I always 'reject all' - I don't care what I'm missing by doing that - it leaves 'essential functions' on anyway.

When you take the time to read the alphabetical list of 'partners' that are keen to track your moves when you do 'accept all'.....no exaggeration, on one site I scrolled down about 200 agency names and I was still on the letter 'A'. The complete list is just unbelievable.

 

[plastic penguin]

Vegetarian or vegan meals that are made to look like meat. Surely if you're a veggie why buy something that looks like a chunk of beef?

 

[jjbomber]

Websites asking if you accept their cookies or not. 99 percent of the time everyone says yes so why bother asking.

It always says 'We Value Your Privacy' before they ask. Well, if you value our privacy then don't install any cookies to spy on us in the first place!

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

...and it's laughable how big, clear and easy they make it to 'accept all'.
Given the choice (and we usually are now) I always 'reject all' - I don't care what I'm missing by doing that - it leaves 'essential functions' on anyway.

When you take the time to read the alphabetical list of 'partners' that are keen to track your moves when you do 'accept all'.....no exaggeration, on one site I scrolled down about 200 agency names and I was still on the letter 'A'. The complete list is just unbelievable.

I use the DuckDuckGo browser on phone and tablet, it has tracker blocking active by default. On the pc I use Vivaldi as my main browser, with tracker blocking enabled. I also reject cookies where possible.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Websites asking if you accept their cookies or not. 99 percent of the time everyone says yes so why bother asking.

'Tis a legal requirement that they do so.

 

[Gray]

'Tis a legal requirement that they do so.

Yes, the sites themselves would much prefer not being forced to mention cookies, that's for sure.

I know I'm unusual in having read through T&C.......a firm offering high res downloads for example - you were agreeing to them remotely checking the contents of your hard drive if they fancied it FFS.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

I know I'm unusual in having read through T&C.......a firm offering high res downloads for example - you were agreeing to them remotely checking the contents of your hard drive if they fancied it FFS.

That would certainly send me elsewhere, although my firewall would likely stop that.

 

[davidf]

Comes to something when the village Co-op is selling Tyrrells at a lower price than a major supermarket - not by much though, and alas they don't stock my flavour....

They never do! Our village Co-op usually gets in those Manomasa crisps, but the flavour I don’t want.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

People who park on the pavement, leaving no room for pedestrians. My late mum was a wheelchair user, and I always feel that she'd have had to use the road under those circumstances. Not safe, and not indicative of a decent person.

Years ago and on an icy day, we had to use a busy dual carriageway in this manner as someone had chosen to block the path completely. My dog decided she needed to park her breakfast just before, so I bagged it up and left it on the car's bonnet. Not noble, I know...

 

[MrReaper182]

Vegetarian or vegan meals that are made to look like meat. Surely if you're a veggie why buy something that looks like a chunk of beef?

Because you meat eaters (I've been vegetarian for 22 years) don't get to decide what food looks like. I like eating stuff like vegetarian sausages as they are easy to cook and put in a sandwich for lunch.

 

[MrReaper182]

'Tis a legal requirement that they do so.

I know that but it still annoys me. Room 101 is not meant to be a rational look at things that annoy you.

 

[MrReaper182]

I use the DuckDuckGo browser on phone and tablet, it has tracker blocking active by default. On the pc I use Vivaldi as my main browser, with tracker blocking enabled. I also reject cookies where possible.

I've used many different browsers like DuckDuckGo and all suck for searching for anything on. Mind you searching on Google sucks big time these days. The World Wide Web is going down hill big time (been using the World Wide Web since 1996) in my view. Corporations have learned to mold the World Wide Web to what they want it to be these days and I really dislike that.

 

[Al ears]

Because you meet eaters (I've been vegetarian for 22 years) don't get to decide what food looks like. I like eating stuff like vegetarian sausages as they are easy to cook and put in a sandwich for lunch.

who doesn't get to decide what food looks like?
surely everyone does.

 

[MrReaper182]

who doesn't get to decide what food looks like?
surely everyone does.

I get sick of some meat eaters telling vegetarians and vegans they can not eat food that looks like meat like PP as done. Meat eaters don't get to tell vegetarians and vegans what the food they eat should like like.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

I get sick of some meat eaters telling vegetarians and vegans they can not eat food that looks like meat like PP as done. Meat eaters don't get to tell vegetarians and vegans what the food they eat should like like.

Similarly, vegetarians and vegans have no right to tell meat eaters what they should and shouldn't eat, in their holier than thou way.

 

[Al ears]

I get sick of some meat eaters telling vegetarians and vegans they can not eat food that looks like meat like PP as done. Meat eaters don't get to tell vegetarians and vegans what the food they eat should like like.

Unfortunately they can and do.
The logic is simple, again unfortunately.

 

[plastic penguin]

Because you meat eaters (I've been vegetarian for 22 years) don't get to decide what food looks like. I like eating stuff like vegetarian sausages as they are easy to cook and put in a sandwich for lunch.

I cook probably 2-3 veggie/vegan main meals a week. We love our veggies. I want a vegetable to look like a vegetable.

Meatless sausages look like something I've trodden in and taste awful. It's made from a mixture of gawd knows what to taste and have the texture of meat.

The other week I tried a vegan pastie - dreadful thing. Much prefer a vegetable pastie from our bakers.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Adding to my previous post above. I have no problem with vegans and vegetarians not eating meat, it's their choice but, I do have a problem with the vegans who keep trying to pressure people into eating their way, because they think they are superior. I don't tell them what to eat, I don't think it is too much to expect, that they don't try and tell me what to eat.

 

[plastic penguin]

Adding to my previous post above. I have no problem with vegans and vegetarians not eating meat, it's their choice but, I do have a problem with the vegans who keep trying to pressure people into eating their way, because they think they are superior. I don't tell them what to eat, I don't think it is too much to expect, that they don't try and tell me what to eat.

I don't have an issue with vegans either. The problem I do have is a few years ago a few numpties smashed windows in butcher shops in parts of the UK.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The menus and holding systems that many companies have when you call up - I don't wish to be directed to the website for GDPR purposes, nor do I care how much you tell me my call is important to you*. If it was, someone could answer it. (I ring when things are important for the same reason I sometimes use letters - emails etc don't seem to be treated with the same gravitas or urgency.)

* Had one the other day which said that my call was important, but no-one was free right now so I should call back later - after which it went dead. Can't tell you how important that made me feel!

 

[Gray]

...following on from the above:
So often, when you do get to talk to an advisor, they cannot or will not help you.

Then they end by asking, "is there anything else I can help you with today?"
I always, respectfully ask "anything else?"
I ask them to reflect on the call and the fact that they haven't helped me in any way whatsoever.
I'm not naive enough to think that they always record calls - but always invite them to use my calls for training purposes.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

There's not a great deal of parking in my village. There are a few parking bays which are intended for two cars - often filled by some dolt who's parked slap bang in the middle.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Shell. Not content with milking us for fuel throughout the horror that was 2022 (and beyond), I've just had my '10th visit reward' come through - the princely sum of £1.80. So that's just over a litre of V-Power. I suspect you can hear my whoops of joy from wherever you might live.

Valid until yesterday...

 

[jjbomber]

Shell.

Most MPG and least damage to your car. I always use Shell.

How did this happen? I was in a garage and a guy pulled up with a fault with his car. The owner said he knew what the problem was; the guy used supermarket fuel. The driver confirmed he did. The part was £300+VAT with labour on top. The owner of the garage told him to use Shell in future. Much cheaper than repairing the car!

 

[Al ears]

Most MPG and least damage to your car. I always use Shell.

How did this happen? I was in a garage and a guy pulled up with a fault with his car. The owner said he knew what the problem was; the guy used supermarket fuel. The driver confirmed he did. The part was £300+VAT with labour on top. The owner of the garage told him to use Shell in future. Much cheaper than repairing the car!

Unless his car needed some weird additive or was the wrong rating of fuel I find this very implausible......
The supermarkets get their fuel from major fuel refineries and this might include Shell.....