The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

[Raid]

What the actual fuck is Sky doing as a business?

They're getting paid £70 a month for TV by millions of people and still absolutely filling their air time, which is more valuable because of the number of people signed up, with adverts. Losing the odd person that can actually be bothered to go through all the rigmarole you've put up with to quit, probably isn't worrying them all that much.

[Wrathbone]

I should point out that the £66 a month is just for the broadband. I don't have Sky TV.

[Raid]

Oh I know, and that's ridiculous in itself (I pay half that for a connection I very rarely max out from BT), I was just meaning they have colossal amounts of income.

[Stormbringer]

I should point out that the £66 a month is just for the broadband. I don't have Sky TV.

My goodness. I'm on TalkTalk; I get a 1Gb full-fibre connection for £28 per month.

[Mantis]

I'm on 320mb (or around that, might be slightly different) with PlusNet and I pay about 31 quid a month ish and it's a full fibre connection.

Always found them to be reliable and the couple of occasions where I had a problem they resolved it quickly.

The big names in the business just have too many customers giving them easy money to ever bother actually offering a good standard of customer service. Sack the lot of them off.

[Sly Boots]

Yeah, I recently moved (back) to Plusnet after BT jacked up their prices, were with Plusnet for ages prior to that and never had issues with them.

The slightly amusing thing is apparently BT owns Plusnet, so everyone involved in that transaction ended up pretty happy with things.

[Wrathbone]

I was with Plusnet for a couple of years and had several issues. The router was bloody awful and needed restarting regularly and their customer service - the thing which they parade about as their best feature - was horrific. The worst instance was when they had a UK-wide outage that lasted about 8 hours and there were zero updates on it anywhere. They didn't even acknowledge it and they certainly never apologised for it.

[Raid]

I work on a university campus, overlooking the main square. This comes with a certain amount of noise; protests, the occasional charity fundraiser with people cheering, that sort of thing. I don't really hold it against anyone as universities are supposed to be lively places. Today though there's a DJ playing the worst 90s and early 2000s dance music I've heard since, well, the 90s and early 2000s. It's the type of music that we seemed to immediately forget as soon as tastes moved on, and is presumably older than all of our current undergrads. It's so loud that my phone, sitting on the desk next to me, is doing it's automatic Shazam thing and telling me the title of the track. We don't have the windows open or anything, although we'd certainly like to as the central heating clunks and bangs constantly if the radiators aren't on and it's baking in here. And it's to advertise the opening of a sodding Co-op store on campus.

I've had to put my noise-cancelling earbuds in to at least drown it out with something more to my tastes, meaning I now can't hear any of my colleagues making working from the office entirely pointless. Just shut up and let me get my sodding work done! >_<

[Wrathbone]

And it's to advertise the opening of a sodding Co-op store on campus.

"Fear not, fellow marketing colleagues, for I have the only solution we'll ever need to entice the youth of today into our extremely dull supermarkets."

<Removes velvet cloth to reveal NOW 1998 double-CD boxset>

[Animalmother]

So utterly forgettable that I can't think of a single artist or song that might have been played.

[Stormbringer]

I work on a university campus, overlooking the main square. This comes with a certain amount of noise; protests, the occasional charity fundraiser with people cheering, that sort of thing. I don't really hold it against anyone as universities are supposed to be lively places. Today though there's a DJ playing the worst 90s and early 2000s dance music I've heard since, well, the 90s and early 2000s. It's the type of music that we seemed to immediately forget as soon as tastes moved on, and is presumably older than all of our current undergrads. It's so loud that my phone, sitting on the desk next to me, is doing it's automatic Shazam thing and telling me the title of the track. We don't have the windows open or anything, although we'd certainly like to as the central heating clunks and bangs constantly if the radiators aren't on and it's baking in here. And it's to advertise the opening of a sodding Co-op store on campus.

I've had to put my noise-cancelling earbuds in to at least drown it out with something more to my tastes, meaning I now can't hear any of my colleagues making working from the office entirely pointless. Just shut up and let me get my sodding work done! >_<

While I'm very sorry to hear this, and I totally sympathise (sounds awful, literally), I am grateful that you've reminded me what I wanted to write a week or so ago in here and forgot about.

THE NINETIES.

I have a lot to gripe about concerning the 90s. It was a time of total disaster for me, personally, but that's too much to talk about right now, so I'll concentrate on one thing: the pop music of the 90s.

I'd say it started out okay, perhaps in the first couple of years of the decade, when it was really still the 80s just bleeding over, but by the end of the decade things were in a dire state. The absolute pinnacle of it, though, probably the worst song I've EVER HEARD and still makes me grind my teeth to this day, is this piece of rot:



This, to me, signified the beginning of the end of civilisation.

I stopped listening to any pop music after 2000, so the last 25 years have been almost completely silent for me, save for the CDs I bought, and whatever I listen to on YouTube.