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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I wish there was an app that would remove the canned laughter from comedy shows.
    I know if something is funny. I don't need to hear the wah wah wah to tell me😡
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Nor do I need to be told to laugh out loud. If something is funny I do not need an LOL prompt; if you intend to signal something is meant light-heartedly an exclamation mark suffices.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's not telling you to laugh. It's telling you that they are laughing.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I did not know that. You live and learn.
    Rutland, England
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I wish recorded messages had an option on the menu:  "Press # to silence this ghastly headache-generating muzak we are blasting at you."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's to make you give up. Death by Vivaldi.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Sometime in the 1980's a survey was commissioned to find out the best 'on hold' music and the 'best voice' for call centres. They discovered Vivaldi and a soft Scottish accent were most popular.

    It must be time for another survey surely!
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Silence with maybe the odd beep so you know you've not been cut off.
    If my call was as important to them as the robot lady says, they'd have more people to answer the phone
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    I wish there was an app that would remove the canned laughter from comedy shows.
    I know if something is funny. I don't need to hear the wah wah wah to tell me😡

    It's not just canned laughter any more.  When the football restarted the broadcasters decided we needed artificial crow noise on that, and they had canned applause on the snooker when there was no crowd. 
    What was funny with the football was that they obviously hadn't listened closely to the footy chants.  There were references to activities undertaken by the referee, presumably off the pitch. :D
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    The blooming Four Seasons, used by my GP surgery and pretty much everyone else I call, drives me nuts. 
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