British Gas using scare tactics to get people to sign up for boiler maintenance contracts. They have a radio ad; “Do you care about you family’s safety? Is your boiler in good condition?” Fuck off!
Well that’s true enough, but I’m not about to start throwing money at British Gas for something that’s probably never gonna happen.
I've been in two minds as to whether I should post about this. Recently my wife and I had a meal at a restaurant and seated at a table across from us was a family - parents and two teenage kids. Great; however what grinded my gears was that instead of them talking with each other, all of them were engrossed with their I-Phones. I wanted to walk up to them, confiscate their phones for the evening, and tell them - 'communicate with each other, dammit!'
Mobile phones are the new TVs. Remember when families use to sit around the piano of an evening? Well, no, neither do I, but apparently they did. Then the television came along and family communication died. You should see the zombies on the bus. Every one of them staring into their black mirrors for the entire journey. It make you want to weep.
People walking down the street staring into their phones, so absorbed they don't know where they are and see nothing of what's going on around them. You wave and say hi and they don't even look up. This is the real zombie apocalypse taking shape around us. Too bad you can't take head shots at them.
They kept announcing, as an ‘end of news’ item on the radio today, how students somewhere have erected a monument of some sort, as a symbol to mark how well the young have ‘coped’ throughout the pandemic. Hold on. They got 20 weeks off school, they don’t have to wear masks, they’re at very low risk of infection. Why the hell are they being praised for coping so well?? They spend 90% of their lives staring into their phones anyway, so how was the pandemic any different for them?
Social bullshit in general. I was thinking today about how odd it is at work that everyone feels like they have to pretend like they're not purely there for the money and the benefits. Why can't people just be real? Who are they trying too fool? Themselves? They must be, because no one else is being convinced. If we were all offered a 10% raise to perform a less stressful job elsewhere, 80% of the workforce would immediately go for it. The rest might be too comfortable or maybe think it's a trick.
Sensationalism. Reporters or presenters taking an event or some other happening and making some big grand stand or deal about it to drum up attention and stir the pot. I can't even watch most any news anymore because a solid half of it is simply sensationalism. It gets so old. I promise that ten people screaming outside a building isn't a monumental social protest. You can see how close they zoom into the group...
You just made me realize sensationalism in the news is equivalent to spectacle in movies, which is like a sugar rush, making people just want more of the same and ruining their appetite for anything more nutritious, like for example good solid storytelling.
I’m not aware of violence / robbery ones, or mass streaking for that matter. No, I’m talking about the singing / dancing ones. Noun a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration I don’t know. I found this video while searching for a John Miles song
I tend to give this one more leeway, depending on how much 'fantasy' is in a universe, or how much it resembles our own. But I LOATHE when people use made up names for (more or less) real holidays. Especially the lazy ones like 'gift day' representing Christmas. (that's actually worse) If you're giving it a 'fake' name, at least be creative. Like I don't care how much of a fantasy world you have, if you have something that's 99% "The Day of the Dead" as Mexico sees it, then just call it that. Now with star wars and the like, I make an exception, but if something was at one point, a 'regular' earth, then please, use the actual name.
People on buses, usually women of a certain demographic, who discuss their private lives (either over the phone or with an accompanying friend) very loudly, purposely, so that everyone else can hear.
