Avanti take needless announcements to a new level

DelW said:

"An announcement or two"? Can I travel on your line please? On SWR (at least until recently), you'd have sat through three or more before leaving Waterloo, and another three or four by Clapham Junction. On metro services with frequent stops, they felt almost continuous, being played in succession after each station call.

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And if you're unlucky enough to have boarded an SWR service at Clapham Junction you'll have had the warm-up act which is the brain numbingly inane drivel over the PA that accompanies the train's arrival.
The pointless announcements at Clapham Junction (slipperyness, scooters, vaping, rugby, delays on another TOC that are of no consequence, etc) frequently interrupt the train's stopping pattern announcement which, as a passenger, is all I actually want to know.

AlterEgo said:

I suppose being asked for your ticket is offensive too.

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Of course not. And on reflection there is no difference between supermarket barriers and ticket barriers, but my view of the former is coloured by my and my Mum's first experience of the former, where she put her receipt in her bag and all the shopping on top, only to have to empty the bag in order to leave the shop!

AlterEgo said:

A guard who walks the train and charges people without the proper ticket does exactly this. There is no need for sarcastic or hyperbolic announcements.

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A polite pre-departure announcement is surely helpful to passengers though, if it means those mistakenly (or otherwise) on board leave the train and avoid being punished for their error.

Falcon1200 said:

A polite pre-departure announcement is surely helpful to passengers though, if it means those mistakenly (or otherwise) on board leave the train and avoid being punished for their error.

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If it's polite and brief then of course that's fine. The objection is to the length and sarcasm.