Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

[gg1]

Can I add the ridiculous and indulgent lengths of films. No Time to Die being a massive example of unnecessary bloat - at least half an hour could have been chopped and made no difference at all.
"I'm tired, think I will just crash, watch a film, then go to bed. Ooh that's available, fancy watching that.....HOW LONG?!"

It depends on the film, there are some where the length is appropriate and worthwhile but there are others which seem to be padded out just to bump up the run time. I found No Time to Die a bit on the slow side too, another recent example is Avatar 2, 3 hours 12 minutes according to IMDB, they could have easily trimmed that down to 2.5 hours or less without losing any of the plot.

 

[birchesgreen]

Its why i prefer the good old days of movies, when most of them were barely over an hour long.

 

[Ediswan]

It depends on the film, there are some where the length is appropriate and worthwhile but there are others which seem to be padded out just to bump up the run time. I found No Time to Die a bit on the slow side too, another recent example is Avatar 2, 3 hours 12 minutes according to IMDB, they could have easily trimmed that down to 2.5 hours or less without losing any of the plot.

Longest I ever saw was Once Upon a Time in America (1984), 3h49m. I was not aware how long it was going to be. I don't remember any of it.

 

[dgl]

Also films that pad one bit out then it seems the actual good bit of the film is squeezed into what's left.
Of course having a longer film is easier now given most films are projected digitally, and as such you no longer have the hassle of splicing films together and making sure your projection reel is large enough (films were generally shipped as multiple smaller reels that were spliced together onto a much larger reel at the cinema, they would then be split again before being sent back).

In reality films bore me so I rarely watch them, going more than once a year, or even once a year, to the cinema is rare for me.

 

[Ediswan]

Of course having a longer film is easier now given most films are projected digitally, and as such you no longer have the hassle of splicing films together and making sure your projection reel is large enough (films were generally shipped as multiple smaller reels that were spliced together onto a much larger reel at the cinema, they would then be split again before being sent back).

Some did that. The other method was to have two projectors. If you were looking, you could see countdown markers top right towards the end of each reel, which told the projectionist when to switch over.

 

[westv]

I would make it illegal to say "haitch" rather than "aitch" when saying h.

 

[Intercity110]

TikTok, as it has some of the most stupid and insulting ’challenges’ ever. Take for example the autism challenge (something that, as an autistic person IS NOT representative of anyone I know with autism) where children basically ‘act stupid’, flap their hands whenever anything happens pretend to have ‘quirky’ hyper fixations. they’re not. Mine are trains and nuclear annhilation.

 

[birchesgreen]

Do autistic people flap their hands about? I can't say i ever do that unless i am pretending to be a bird or something.

 

[nw1]

Another example of a previous gripe I made (I think).

The newly found fashion in software to dispense with status/feedback messages to the user when a long-running process is taking place. Microsoft seem to be particularly guilty of this.

Windows update this morning. Progress bar while downloading the update, but when it gets to 100% it just sits there, fan on full power, and continues to download data from the network for a while (presumably some sort of verification process).

Would like to see feedback explaining what's going on, please, Microsoft. For example "Update downloaded; verifying and/or configuring update; please wait".

MSFT and other software companies always used to do this, however for some unbeknown reason it's become very unfashionable in the 2020s.

 

[duncanp]

I would make it illegal to say "haitch" rather than "haitch" when saying h.

Corrected that for you.

 

[westv]

Corrected that for you.

Your correction is incorrect.

 

[Northumbriana]

TikTok, as it has some of the most stupid and insulting ’challenges’ ever. Take for example the autism challenge (something that, as an autistic person IS NOT representative of anyone I know with autism) where children basically ‘act stupid’, flap their hands whenever anything happens pretend to have ‘quirky’ hyper fixations. they’re not. Mine are trains and nuclear annhilation.

Trains, running, quizzes, post/pre-apocalyptic/horror fiction for me.

Do autistic people flap their hands about? I can't say i ever do that unless i am pretending to be a bird or something.

Never done it myself, but I guess it would fit into the stimming category.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Do autistic people flap their hands about? I can't say i ever do that unless i am pretending to be a bird or something.

Some do, particularly in early childhood. As Northumbriana says above, it would fall into the category of "stimming". As for TikTok "challenges" how about simply banning that infernal app? As covered in another thread, it seems to encourage decidedly stupid and offensive behaviours.

 

[westv]

Are autistic people more artistic?

 

[Techniquest]

Some do, particularly in early childhood. As Northumbriana says above, it would fall into the category of "stimming". As for TikTok "challenges" how about simply banning that infernal app? As covered in another thread, it seems to encourage decidedly stupid and offensive behaviours.

I'd absolutely support banning TikTok, mind you I'd do the same for Facebook and Instagram as well. Twitter of times past would be kept for being useful, but I'd not keep the current form of Twitter. So much so I stopped using that altogether a good while ago.

Fortunately I was not on this thread last night, as the amount of things I'd have added from my visit to North Wales would have filled a whole page!

 

[Northumbriana]

Are autistic people more artistic?

Depends on what you consider as art.

 

[Acey]

Lights on in daylight

 

[PeterY]

Lights on in daylight

Excessive lighting at that, especially in shops.

I work in a charity shop, we have air con. In the summer the air con is running flat out with the door open. A total waste of energy.

Shops with electric heaters over their doors and the doors wide open in the winter. It must be expensive to warm up the outside world .

 

[duncanp]

Can we ban companies from putting misleading or downright incorrect information on their websites.

If the official pub website says that they serve food from 11am, you should be able to order food at 11:40am, and not be told "...we don't serve food until 12:00.."

Yes, Greene King, I am looking at you.

 

[bspahh]

Shops with electric heaters over their doors and the doors wide open in the winter. It must be expensive to warm up the outside world .

If you put the same heater at the back of the shop, then it would be cold near the door and warm at the back of the shop. We notice changes in temperature, more than the absolute temperature, so it feels less comfortable to have hot and cold spots.

People coming into the shop will notice that the shop is warmer than outside. People who stay in the shop all the time can wear more clothes, so they are comfortable at a lower temperature.

 

[dangie]

Shops with electric heaters over their doors and the doors wide open in the winter. It must be expensive to warm up the outside world .

If you put the same heater at the back of the shop, then it would be cold near the door and warm at the back of the shop. We notice changes in temperature, more than the absolute temperature, so it feels less comfortable to have hot and cold spots.

People coming into the shop will notice that the shop is warmer than outside. People who stay in the shop all the time can wear more clothes, so they are comfortable at a lower temperature.

Whatever all that means, what as it got to do with all that expensive heat floating out of the door?

A particular charity shop in my town (British Heart Foundation) really gets my goat. Their door is always wide open no matter how cold it is outside with the over door heater full on. As much as I support charity shops it really annoys me that much of my charity buy is going to the electric company.

 

[bspahh]

A particular charity shop in my town (British Heart Foundation) really gets my goat. Their door is always wide open no matter how cold it is outside with the over door heater full on. As much as I support charity shops it really annoys me that much of my charity buy is going to the electric company.

A charity shop is a business. It only helps the charity when it makes a profit. They will leave the door open, because it means they get more business and sell more stuff.

"air curtains" above a door direct the air flow from above the door to reduce the mixing of cold air from outside.

 

[AM9]

One of my peeves is that advertisements on commercial radiofrequently read the 'small print' out at the end far too quick to understand. Although I have not heard of any legal challenges to the practice, I would be interested in whether a court would say that a decision to purchase based on such an advert on the grounds that the conditions were not clearly made available to the buyer, thus rendering any enforcement of them unlawful.

 

[Strat-tastic]

There should be a rule that they speak at the same rate for the whole ad.

 

[Gloster]

All those Coronation displays in the window of shops and other businesses. It doesn’t matter what they are: butchers, bakers, candlestick-makers, or whatever, they have to do it. A few make an effort, but most just seem to consist of a random collection of junk with the most tenuous connection to royalty and pictures cut out of newspapers and magazines. Amongst the worst are charity shops, which seem to have displays consisting of various royal books from their endless supply of such donations. Quite how anyone is going to be enthused by this when the centrepiece is a book ‘celebrating’ Charles & Diana‘s marriage, I know not.

 

[Intercity110]

the word 'ableist'. Use the more realistic term 'disability discrimination' instead of making it sound like a trendy thing to do.

 

[dangie]

Bit more than a minor irritation but will save starting another thread.

From the BBC:
The remains of an Australian man who vanished while fishing with friends have been found inside a crocodile…… After a two-day search of the area, police euthanised two large crocodiles and found human body parts…… Police said it was a "tragic ending" for Mr Darmody. A formal identification process will be carried out.
I think it was more of a tragic ending for the crocodiles. Apparently he was fishing in a well known saltwater crocodile habitat. Maybe he should have fished somewhere else.

Missing Australian fisherman's body found in crocodile

Kevin Darmody vanished while fishing with friends in far north Queensland on Saturday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Lucan]

They will leave the door open, because it means they get more business and sell more stuff.

In cold weather I would not feel inclined to use a shop that had its door open.

 

[Thirteen]

Bit more than a minor irritation but will save starting another thread.

From the BBC:
The remains of an Australian man who vanished while fishing with friends have been found inside a crocodile…… After a two-day search of the area, police euthanised two large crocodiles and found human body parts…… Police said it was a "tragic ending" for Mr Darmody. A formal identification process will be carried out.
I think it was more of a tragic ending for the crocodiles. Apparently he was fishing in a well known saltwater crocodile habitat. Maybe he should have fished somewhere else.

Missing Australian fisherman's body found in crocodile

Kevin Darmody vanished while fishing with friends in far north Queensland on Saturday.

www.bbc.co.uk

As unfortunate as it is that someone got eaten by crocodiles, I don't blame the crocodiles for the incident, it's human error that caused the demise.

 

[dangie]

As unfortunate as it is that someone got eaten by crocodiles, I don't blame the crocodiles for the incident, it's human error that caused the demise.

Yes that was my point. The same if someone is attacked by a shark. You choose to go into its domain, the shark doesn’t come into ours.