[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

Indeed. Nothing serious (I hope). I can speak more normally today. Could do with rest - but too busy to have time off work.

How much did you end up paying and for which music if i am allowed to ask?

Does iTunes have hella w and korzeniowkis 'we' yet? Or richter's new score ?

Yes.

Surely the first clue to your answer is 'weekend shopping'?

Whether or not, I should buy more CDs since CDs are going extinct. Or to sell my collection while I can get something for it...

I bought a whole bunch of Jeremy Soule game soundtracks several years ago from directsong.com. At that time DRM was a big thing and I found that I was very limited in what I could do with them.

I have them all on my external hard disc and I am wondering whether I can still play them. If I cannot, what can I do to play them? They were purchased when I had my old PC and I am wondering if a license or something may have been put somewhere other than the folder with the tracks.

I need to go and see if I can play them...

Not the fact that we can usually get a broadband download speed of 6300 kbps, but upload speed is only 360 kbps.

It should be easy to sell? Or not?


What is annoying me? Minor annoyance, but our wireless thing is not working OK, so I play iTunes on the laptop and should hear it through the sound system, but the connect.........ion is n............ot good so th..........er.........e are int...........errupt............ions of s.............ilence all th.........e time............ '

My gf recently let her mother look at the pictures on her computer, and of course she accidentally ended up seeing a photo of me in my tight boxer briefs. Apparently she laughed out loud, which I'm frankly a bit concerned about.

Peter

This belongs here rather than in the book topic where I posted it:

We have a TV show now on the commercial channel which probably looks like an informative program to many people but it is made by the medical institute Bergman Clinics, arrrrgh, drives me nuts this kind of stuff. You have too much hair, go to Bergman Clinics, you have no hair, go to Bergman Clinics, your toes too short, your lips too long (all of them!), legs not good, teeth not good, eyes not good, let's fix it! They make it look like there are real doctors talking. I believe they are real doctors though, but doctors who work for Bergman Clinics!!

OK, some people really do have a medical problem. A medical problem. But most of it is easthetical crap.

Oh, and their slogan is 'Bergman Clinics - makes people better'

You should know that in Dutch better means also cured, like when you're not ill anymore you are better too. (wait it's the same in English right?)

Anyway, make people better, arrrggggghhh, horrible! Of course we are not good enough yet, we need Bergman to make us better people.

Good question. I don't know exactly how they 'warn' for it, but I do know for sure there is a 'this program is sponsord by...' before it starts.

I know, almost every show on the commercial channel is sponsord by something, but this is different. I mean, even the weather is sponsored, but that doesn't mean the sponsoring company decides what weather it will be!!

What happens here is that the program itself is the advertisement, as you say. I know this isn't new and it is commercial TV, but I was never bothered much by commercial TV. It was mostly the commercial breaks that were annoying but the programs were still programs. Now programs become huge ads, and it's annoying.

Quinn and I watch a daily soap that says 'this program contains product placement' and then you see everyone in almost every scene eating that candy or yoghurt or whatever. We always laugh hard about it, although it is kind of sad. I'm sure they even rewrite some scenes so they can take place near a fridge or something, ha!

But this program about looks, about what humanity is... it worries me. The idea of beauty has been changing for many years now but it's getting worse and surgery and medication is getting more common. If I were a surgeon I would go to countries were people have a hard life because of some condition and fix that! These things here are not real problems.

I hear ya! There are few things more annoying than deceptive commercials, and let's be honest, 99% of commercials are deceptive.

Would be nice to see a commercial that say "This is toothpaste X. It's just as good as any other toothpaste, but we made this commercial in the hopes that you will buy our brand anyway. But really, they all basically do the same thing".

Peter

This reminds me: did you see the movie The Invention of Lying? It started nice and got really weird and horrible as it went along I thought, but since lies do niet exist in this movie, the 'commercials' are very funny.

At one point a truck passes that says "Pepsi. For when they have no Coca Cola"
There's also this honest Coca Cola commercial where they do explain what's in it. I thought that was the best part of the movie. Oh yeah, also what was on the building of the home for the elderly. Too honest.