Room 101

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

There's a busy dual carriageway near where I live that we have to cross to do our usual non-winter walk with the dogs. It's a pain to cross, sometimes you can wait 3-5 minutes. There was a gap before a Pallex lorry, and the lights a couple of hundred metres on were red, so I ran across. Was off the road before he got there, but this didn't stop him tooting his horn and flipping the bird.

On the plus side, it's gratifyingly easy to find the email addresses for complaining about most large companies' drivers...

 

[jjbomber]

There's a busy dual carriageway near where I live that we have to cross to do our usual non-winter walk with the dogs. It's a pain to cross, sometimes you can wait 3-5 minutes. There was a gap before a Pallex lorry, and the lights a couple of hundred metres on were red, so I ran across. Was off the road before he got there, but this didn't stop him tooting his horn and flipping the bird.

On the plus side, it's gratifyingly easy to find the email addresses for complaining about most large companies' drivers...

So you were walking the dog, but too lazy to walk down to the lights to cross? I'm on the side of the lorry here, in the Pallex v Pillox debate!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

So you were walking the dog, but too lazy to walk down to the lights to cross? I'm on the side of the lorry here, in the Pallex v Pillox debate!

Jumping in without knowing the facts again, eh? The lights are at a busy three-lane roundabout with multiple junctions and no pedestrian crossings - it's like the sort of thing you find at the end of a motorway slip road. The road is (sort of) safer, and intended to be used for crossing - gaps in armco and footpaths at either end. And lazy? Back from six miles, which is a typical walk...

And I'll ignore the personal comment at the end as you seem to have managed to invert it!

 

[Cricketbat70]

Jumping in without knowing the facts again, eh? The lights are at a busy three-lane roundabout with multiple junctions and no pedestrian crossings - it's like the sort of thing you find at the end of a motorway slip road. The road is (sort of) safer, and intended to be used for crossing - gaps in armco and footpaths at either end. And lazy? Back from six miles, which is a typical walk...

And I'll ignore the personal comment at the end as you seem to have managed to invert it!

I've seen plenty of dual carriage ways with crossing points like that up and down the country. In an ideal world there would be a footbridge over a dual carriage way but how much would that cost to build one for every crossing point. Up to drivers and pedestrians to be safe near these. There are signs to warn drivers about crossing points.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

There was a '50 best restaurants in the world' list launched in June (apparently). The most expensive set menu is a Danish one called Alchemist, which weighs in at £1,900. There must be some individuals who can feed themselves perfectly adequately for a year on that...

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

There was a '50 best restaurants in the world' list launched in June (apparently). The most expensive set menu is a Danish one called Alchemist, which weighs in at £1,900. There must be some individuals who can feed themselves perfectly adequately for a year on that...

Can’t blame them for charging so much, if people are rich enough and daft enough to pay. It’s no wonder companies can get away with selling cables at £1000s per meter…

 

[Cricketbat70]

There was a '50 best restaurants in the world' list launched in June (apparently). The most expensive set menu is a Danish one called Alchemist, which weighs in at £1,900. There must be some individuals who can feed themselves perfectly adequately for a year on that...

Like a restaurant a few miles from where I live ( The Fence Gate) there used to be a SKY TV informertial about it. The most expensive steak pie in the world.
The world's most expensive steak pie at the Fence Gate Inn was £8,195, or £1,024 per slice for the group of eight who ordered it. This 2005 record-breaking pie was made with luxury ingredients like Japanese wagyu beef, Chinese matsutake mushrooms, and vintage 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine.

• Total cost: £8,195
• Cost per slice: £1,024 (for a group of eight)
• Key ingredients:
  • Japanese wagyu beef fillet
  • Chinese matsutake mushrooms
  • Winter black truffles
  • French Bluefoot mushrooms
  • Gravy made from two bottles of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine
  • Edible gold leaf topping

Ridiculous. That's 20 years ago. I'd hate to see what the price would be now if the ingredients are still available.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Edible gold leaf topping

That says it all, doesn't it? I doubt gold has much flavour.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Heard/ read so many complaints about them I'm surprised they are still going.

They agreed to refund the 365 subscription as I've had to sign up for it anyway, but it staggers me how long companies can take to get funds back to you. They will have taken it with startling haste, and the same should apply in reverse.

 

[Cricketbat70]

They agreed to refund the 365 subscription as I've had to sign up for it anyway, but it staggers me how long companies can take to get funds back to you. They will have taken it with startling haste, and the same should apply in reverse.

Oh yeah we often whine about that at home "quick to take your money but reluctant to actually give it back"

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

That says it all, doesn't it? I doubt gold has much flavour.

But, as it’s inert, you can recover the gold after it has pased through and reuse it, again and again…💩

 

[Cricketbat70]

But, as it’s inert, you can recover the gold after it has pased through and reuse it, again and again…💩

I think I'm going to be sick at that thought 🤣

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I think I'm going to be sick at that thought 🤣

Not as sick as you'd feel if you'd bought the pie in question!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Amazon's ads when you're watching on Prime. I know companies don't acquire global dominance by being nice guys, but shoe-horning in an ad that lasts for 70s is not reasonable. Hopefully its algorithms will notice that at least one user just stopped watching at that point...

 

[jjbomber]

Amazon's ads when you're watching on Prime.

The BBC ads are even worse.

 

[Dave_]

Hopefully its algorithms will notice that at least one user just stopped watching at that point...

The whole point is maximum annoyance to get you to upgrade to prime ad free....

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

The whole point is maximum annoyance to get you to upgrade to prime ad free....

Maximum annoyance can also drive people away, like me for example. I don’t think, “this is really bloody annoying, I know what I’ll do, I’ll give them more money”, I go away.

 

[DCarmi]

The whole point is maximum annoyance to get you to upgrade to prime ad free....

Yeah! Well! It hasn't worked with me. My prime viewing has dropped by about 70%. I don't even look to see what I might be missing.

If it wasn't for my other-half keeping Amazon in business with her parcels, I'd consider cancelling Prime, completely.

 

[jjbomber]

Yeah! Well! It hasn't worked with me. My prime viewing has dropped by about 70%. I don't even look to see what I might be missing.

If it wasn't for my other-half keeping Amazon in business with her parcels, I'd consider cancelling Prime, completely.

Surely Amazon have won? You watching less but paying the same?

 

[Cricketbat70]

Yeah! Well! It hasn't worked with me. My prime viewing has dropped by about 70%. I don't even look to see what I might be missing.

If it wasn't for my other-half keeping Amazon in business with her parcels, I'd consider cancelling Prime, completely.

Sounds like our house don't know when I last watched anything on prime. But my wife. An Amazon van was reversing down our street when my son and I got home from work and Rach said "oh is Amazon outside it should be coming here" my son replied "of course it's coming here, they come here every day".
As the joke goes "my wife's super power is acting surprised when the 15 parcels she orders every day from Amazon arrive"

 

[Dave_]

Maximum annoyance can also drive people away, like me for example. I don’t think, “this is really bloody annoying, I know what I’ll do, I’ll give them more money”, I go away.

Yeah! Well! It hasn't worked with me. My prime viewing has dropped by about 70%. I don't even look to see what I might be missing.

If it wasn't for my other-half keeping Amazon in business with her parcels, I'd consider cancelling Prime, completely.

I'm not condoning it, just pointing out this is the game online platforms play.

Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" a few years ago that perfectly describes the deliberate decay of platforms and has recently published a book on the subject...

 

[DCarmi]

Surely Amazon have won? You watching less but paying the same?

Which is why I would consider cancelling. However, I'd get some grief, from the other half.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Just in case you think ridiculous pricing for not very much, is a high-end Hi-Fi thing, cop a load of these prices, for computer keyboards and accessories. In Room 101 because they are taking the pee.

Collections

Typing instruments from a forgotten future.

www.norbauer.co

 

[Cricketbat70]

Just in case you think ridiculous pricing for not very much, is a high-end Hi-Fi thing, cop a load of these prices, for computer keyboards and accessories. In Room 101 because they are taking the pee.

Collections

Typing instruments from a forgotten future.

www.norbauer.co

Well here comes the famous Yorkshire Shoppers Battle Cry " HOWWWWWW MUUUUUUUUCH!!!!!!!"

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Just in case you think ridiculous pricing for not very much, is a high-end Hi-Fi thing, cop a load of these prices, for computer keyboards and accessories. In Room 101 because they are taking the pee.

Collections

Typing instruments from a forgotten future.

www.norbauer.co

That they refer to them as 'typing instruments' says it all - like posh pen hawkers calling their wares 'writing instruments'. Makes you want to flip them your middle nose-picking instrument...