What annoys you? (1 Viewer)

[Mike Frezon]

I don't need my government talking down to me...in verse.

 

[bmasters9]

I don't need my government talking down to me...in verse.

I think, based on that, that the old yellow "School Bus Stop Ahead" signs (and the later ones with an image of a bus picking up kids and a straight-up arrow [also on yellow] got the point across far better than that).

 

[Jeffrey D]

We grind whole beans and then brew. Everyone gets a great cup of coffee.

Yes I do this when I’m home in the mornings- Starbucks Cafe Verona (regular, not unleaded).
Yummy!

 

[Mike Frezon]

I think, based on that, that the old yellow "School Bus Stop Ahead" signs (and the later ones with an image of a bus picking up kids and a straight-up arrow [also on yellow] got the point across far better than that).

Proper signage is the thing. The examples you cite are proper road signage to indicate road situations to drivers. Just like a "yield" or "stop" sign or a traffic light.

The situations we were talking about earlier involve taking "temporary" (sometimes permanent) road hazard or traffic indicators which might alert you to an accident ahead or roadwork and putting up mindless sayings to "remind" drivers about common sense driving practices. "Ice and snow. Take it slow." That sort of thing. Someone in NYS has decided to co-opt the use of those signs to display nonsense verse that drivers should already know and follow. If the drivers don't, they shouldn't be driving and an inane "Burma Shave-style" verse isn't going to change. It's just a waste of taxpayer dollars and an insult to responsible drivers.

I'm sure there are those who will tell me that they are harmless and more important things to get worked up about. But I've seen too much stupidity on the part of people in government and waste in tax dollars (and I consider myself a very good driver--who knows the rules of the road) that this particular issue SCREAMS "annoyance" at me.

Proper:

Idiotic:

 

[Bryan^H]

Maybe they think the little rhymes are catchy and will stick in their heads. It is pretty pathetic, but then again traffic is so bad on my expressway travel that I am just about to swear it off forever. People really do drive like crazed maniacs, and it is frightening to know my life depends on them, and they aren't pulling their weight. Being a defensive driver just doesn't cut it anymore.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Maybe they think the little rhymes are catchy and will stick in their heads. It is pretty pathetic

Really. How pathetic have we gotten as a society when government thinks its citizens are so ignorant they think they need to spoon-feed common sense into its people with bits of nonsense verse?

It wasn't THAT long ago when our founding fathers were able to read the classics in their original Greek and Latin: Ovid, Homer, Plato, Herodotus, etc.

And nowadays we hope that people we trust to operate a one-ton automobile will be better for having read "Ice and Snow. Take it slow."

 

[Bryan^H]

Really. How pathetic have we gotten as a society when government thinks its citizens are so ignorant they think they need to spoon-feed common sense into its people with bits of nonsense verse?

It wasn't THAT long ago when our founding fathers were able to read the classics in their original Greek and Latin: Ovid, Homer, Plato, Herodotus, etc.

And nowadays we hope that people we trust to operate a one-ton automobile will be better for having read "Ice and Snow. Take it slow."

When you think deeper about it is SCARY!!

The government treating citizens like 5 year old children. Do they think we are dumb, or at the very least simple? Do they know something we don't?

 

[Mike Frezon]

Or is it government which is dumb...or, at the very least, simple.

Or...sigh...maybe both are true.

 

[TJPC]

We saw one yesterday that just said “careful”!

 

[jcroy]

Really. How pathetic have we gotten as a society when government thinks its citizens are so ignorant they think they need to spoon-feed common sense into its people with bits of nonsense verse?

It wasn't THAT long ago when our founding fathers were able to read the classics in their original Greek and Latin: Ovid, Homer, Plato, Herodotus, etc.

And nowadays we hope that people we trust to operate a one-ton automobile will be better for having read "Ice and Snow. Take it slow."

When you think deeper about it is SCARY!!

The government treating citizens like 5 year old children. Do they think we are dumb, or at the very least simple? Do they know something we don't?

Or is it government which is dumb...or, at the very least, simple.

Or...sigh...maybe both are true.

(Without getting heavily into politics).

My first knee-jerk impulse reponse would also be similar: Idiocracy taking over the world.

Though with that being said, over the years I've come to the realization that most of this style of "visible stupidity" might very well be window dressing masking other issues. My suspicion is that a lot of this "visible stupidity" may very well be a form of setting legal precedents, such that "twinkie defense" type of stuff isn't corrupting the legal system with idiocratic style precedents.

 

[Walter Kittel]

You know, maybe it is just a traffic sign.

And yes, in today's world there are far more important things to get worked up about.

Just my $0.02.

- Walter.

 

[Mike Frezon]

C'mon, Walter, don't make me be annoyed that my annoyances aren't important enough to you!

It's a STUPID traffic sign.

 

[RobertR]

C'mon, Walter, don't make me be annoyed that my annoyances aren't important enough to you!

It's a STUPID traffic sign.

Is he annoyed by your annoyance?

 

[Mike Frezon]

Is he annoyed by your annoyance?

Apparently!

 

[jcroy]

(More generally).

The standards for what is stupidity / infantile can also change with the times, and vary from person to person.

For example if I was a hardcore film snob with a "get off my lawn" mentality, I would think that the mainstream popularity of superhero + horror films would be an "infantilization" of society.

 

[Clinton McClure]

UPS mis-delivering a package I had been waiting on for two weeks is annoying the hell out of me right now.

 

[Jeffrey D]

UPS mis-delivering a package I had been waiting on for two weeks is annoying the hell out of me right now.

I guess Cliff Clavin has switched from US Mail to UPS

 

[Malcolm R]

Drug commercials that say "do not take if you are allergic." How would anyone know if they're allergic to it until they take it?

 

[TJPC]

Being from Canada, we are bewildered by the long list of possible side effects that appears after drug commercials in the USA. , especially on CNN. This always makes us laugh. Does this encourage anyone to take the drugs? I don’t think prescription drugs are advertised here. We generally trust our doctors to prescribe for us, rather than find a drug and ask for it.

 

[Mike Frezon]

the long list of possible side effects that appears after drug commercials in the USA.

My favorite of which is "possibly death."