The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread

Richard Haseltine

kyoto kid said:

...complaint:

You Tube was extremely obnoxious tonight.  Usually to clear their advert blocker warning takes a simple refresh of the page, but tonight when i tried to watch my news programmes, it would not relent and kept repeatedly popping up again and again. I ended up having to go into Chrome's incognito mode to watch the news.

It is bad enough one has to pay for net access, but to have to pay another fee on top of that to not have a video interrupted by adverts (usually for products and services I would never pay for) is ridiculous.

They don't get a cut of the money you pay for net  access, so they need to get money somewhere.

OrangeFalcon

Richard Haseltine said:

kyoto kid said:

...complaint:

You Tube was extremely obnoxious tonight.  Usually to clear their advert blocker warning takes a simple refresh of the page, but tonight when i tried to watch my news programmes, it would not relent and kept repeatedly popping up again and again. I ended up having to go into Chrome's incognito mode to watch the news.

It is bad enough one has to pay for net access, but to have to pay another fee on top of that to not have a video interrupted by adverts (usually for products and services I would never pay for) is ridiculous.

They don't get a cut of the money you pay for net  access, so they need to get money somewhere.

Yeah it's neccesary for the creators to continue making content.  I pay for Premium so I don't deal with it.  We already have advertisements on the internet, TV, windows, doors, buses, billboards, inside stores, outside stores, people spinning signs, people yelling things, airplanes, radio, on mannequins (who may or may not be real), race cars, wrestlers, flyers, fruit, and all sorts of other things.

I don't want it on YouTube, I get very cranky when I click on a video and it shows me a ad-even waiting 15 seconds to skip is an eternity.

DanaTA

OrangeFalcon said:

Richard Haseltine said:

kyoto kid said:

...complaint:

You Tube was extremely obnoxious tonight.  Usually to clear their advert blocker warning takes a simple refresh of the page, but tonight when i tried to watch my news programmes, it would not relent and kept repeatedly popping up again and again. I ended up having to go into Chrome's incognito mode to watch the news.

It is bad enough one has to pay for net access, but to have to pay another fee on top of that to not have a video interrupted by adverts (usually for products and services I would never pay for) is ridiculous.

They don't get a cut of the money you pay for net  access, so they need to get money somewhere.

Yeah it's neccesary for the creators to continue making content.  I pay for Premium so I don't deal with it.  We already have advertisements on the internet, TV, windows, doors, buses, billboards, inside stores, outside stores, people spinning signs, people yelling things, airplanes, radio, on mannequins (who may or may not be real), race cars, wrestlers, flyers, fruit, and all sorts of other things.

 

You forgot to mention tee shirts, jackets, hats, shoes... People are living billboards these days!

NylonGirl

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint:  Shifting realities:  My recent spate of medical problems required that I find a place for new doctor and medical bill paperwork in my desk files.  So I distinctly remember a couple weeks ago searching for a new manila file folder, titling it, and putting it in its proper place alphabetically in my file drawer.​  Today I finally paid the last bill for my Otorlaryncologist (Ear/Nose/Throat doctor) for all my bloody nose episodes and went to file the paper receipts into the folder, but it wasn't there.  Hmmm... Looked all over in all my file drawers and it was nowhere to be seen.  But OK, it was just an empty folder, so I'll make another.  I went to the drawer where my blank folders were found the last time I made a folder, and none were there.  Not even a hint that they had ever been there.  I looked in all my file drawers again, and again, and there was no pile of virgin folders to be found in the filedrawers, at all.  Hmmm...  I finally unpacked the storage boxes in the cubbyhole under my office shelves and found a partial box of about 30 virgin file folders.  Yay, but I was POSITIVE that I had found about 15 or 20 of them in my file drawers a couple weeks ago.  Mandella effect?  Or did I slide from one meta-universe to another?  I don't subscribe to the MetaUniverse theory so the only other conclusion is that I dreamed (or daydreamed) the virgin files folders in my filedrawer.  

Additionally, I've got a 3 inch high pile of hospital and doctor bills receipts & paperwork from my heart attack, still on my desk.  I may need to start a new file drawer just for them.  And I KNOW that I don't have a spare file cabinet in the cubbyhole under the shelves.

I think it would be interesting to see how well the actual sorting of the documents matches the memory of sorting the documents.

OrangeFalcon

DanaTA said:

OrangeFalcon said:

Richard Haseltine said:

kyoto kid said:

...complaint:

You Tube was extremely obnoxious tonight.  Usually to clear their advert blocker warning takes a simple refresh of the page, but tonight when i tried to watch my news programmes, it would not relent and kept repeatedly popping up again and again. I ended up having to go into Chrome's incognito mode to watch the news.

It is bad enough one has to pay for net access, but to have to pay another fee on top of that to not have a video interrupted by adverts (usually for products and services I would never pay for) is ridiculous.

They don't get a cut of the money you pay for net  access, so they need to get money somewhere.

Yeah it's neccesary for the creators to continue making content.  I pay for Premium so I don't deal with it.  We already have advertisements on the internet, TV, windows, doors, buses, billboards, inside stores, outside stores, people spinning signs, people yelling things, airplanes, radio, on mannequins (who may or may not be real), race cars, wrestlers, flyers, fruit, and all sorts of other things.

 

You forgot to mention tee shirts, jackets, hats, shoes... People are living billboards these days!

So true! 

 

OrangeFalcon

NylonGirl said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint:  Shifting realities:  My recent spate of medical problems required that I find a place for new doctor and medical bill paperwork in my desk files.  So I distinctly remember a couple weeks ago searching for a new manila file folder, titling it, and putting it in its proper place alphabetically in my file drawer.​  Today I finally paid the last bill for my Otorlaryncologist (Ear/Nose/Throat doctor) for all my bloody nose episodes and went to file the paper receipts into the folder, but it wasn't there.  Hmmm... Looked all over in all my file drawers and it was nowhere to be seen.  But OK, it was just an empty folder, so I'll make another.  I went to the drawer where my blank folders were found the last time I made a folder, and none were there.  Not even a hint that they had ever been there.  I looked in all my file drawers again, and again, and there was no pile of virgin folders to be found in the filedrawers, at all.  Hmmm...  I finally unpacked the storage boxes in the cubbyhole under my office shelves and found a partial box of about 30 virgin file folders.  Yay, but I was POSITIVE that I had found about 15 or 20 of them in my file drawers a couple weeks ago.  Mandella effect?  Or did I slide from one meta-universe to another?  I don't subscribe to the MetaUniverse theory so the only other conclusion is that I dreamed (or daydreamed) the virgin files folders in my filedrawer.  

Additionally, I've got a 3 inch high pile of hospital and doctor bills receipts & paperwork from my heart attack, still on my desk.  I may need to start a new file drawer just for them.  And I KNOW that I don't have a spare file cabinet in the cubbyhole under the shelves.

I think it would be interesting to see how well the actual sorting of the documents matches the memory of sorting the documents.

I have two working theories-multiverse crossovers or gremlins. 

NylonGirl

OrangeFalcon said:

I have two working theories-multiverse crossovers or gremlins. 

I think it may have something to do with bean-based teleportation. More on that later.