A irritating pet peeve

AZ Jim

AZ Jim

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Lot's of things that irritate today but one that ticks me off is the catalogs and magazines that have "blow ins" in them. You know the little coupon or notice of major deal on something that have no other reason to be there than a "free ride" to your home. The call them "blow ins" because that is how they are put into the document. The magazine goes down a line and these things are blown into the pages which are page flapping due to a fan of some sort. When you try to read the mag the little pains tumble to the floor and you get to pick them up. I have a permanent resolution never to even read them once alone spend any money with whoever the sponsor is.
 

Interesting Jim I had never heard of the term "blow-ins" or even thought of how they were put into magazines. We get free newspapers full of these leaflets which I never read, its such a waste of paper and printing inks etc., but I guess it must pay these businesses enough for them to keep doing it.
 
The incentive is if you want to reach a large audience at a small cost you pay a catalog or magazine to "blow-in" your little pitch. No overhead of your own and mass distribution but the damn things always end up on the floor and you get to pick them up. I hate 'em. I'm not fond of taxes, republicans, cancer, heart disease, phony preachers either. *lol*
 

AZ Jim said:
The incentive is if you want to reach a large audience at a small cost you pay a catalog or magazine to "blow-in" your little pitch. No overhead of your own and mass distribution but the damn things always end up on the floor and you get to pick them up. I hate 'em. I'm not fond of taxes, republicans, cancer, heart disease, phony preachers either. *lol*
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You forgot vegetarians.
 
I don't like those either Jim, a lot of times I'll gather them from the getgo and throw them in the trash. Hate the ones with strong perfume too. :rolleyes:
 
Actually, Canada Post here does a thriving business, altho less so in letters, more package deliveries due to online shopping, not going out of business quite yet. ;)
 
AZ Jim said:
The incentive is if you want to reach a large audience at a small cost you pay a catalog or magazine to "blow-in" your little pitch. No overhead of your own and mass distribution but the damn things always end up on the floor and you get to pick them up. I hate 'em. I'm not fond of taxes, republicans, cancer, heart disease, phony preachers either. *lol*
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Go Jim! Go Jim! I'm with you all the way.
Its been my experience that since I've been in my eighties, everything ends up on the floor. Sometimes even myself!
 
fuzzybuddy said:
One of my many pet peeves is when news sources want you to turn off your ad blocker. I didn't install an ad blocker so I can turn it off. No, I don't want to see your crummy ads. I understand that ad revenue ipays for the news service. I don't care how many passive ads are on your site, I don't want pop up ads in my face.
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Preach it. (y) :) I've got 3 add blockers on my computer. adblock, adblock plus, and adblocker ultimate. Takes at least these 3 to slow down those adds. :mad: for example, I just opened another browser and went to a current news site. this is what got blocked on just the main page. 🤯:mad:
adblock blocked 21 adds
adblock plus blocked 20 adds
adblocker ultimate blocked 28

By the way, old post and reminded me how I miss AZ. Jim :(
 
This is starting to become a pet peeve. It's coronavirus ads on TV. Ya know- the over schmaltsy ads, with violins, lots of flowers. "We are all in this together- just like your fellow brothers at Fernheadhimer Ford, Home of Ford R-150. And remember in these trying times, we must all pull together. And don't forget to schedual an online sales appointment." . And those fake "thank you ads", "We , at Fernheadhimer Ford, would like to thank all those first responders And don't forget to schedual an online sales appointment." I just don't like all the false sentimentality over the virus, when you're really hawking your products. Sell you stuff, ain't nothing wrong with that, but forget the fake "we are in this together "ploy. That's getting kind of overdone.
 
Not that I find fault with everybody, It's that everybody does things ,in which the faults don't need much finding.
OK. Pet Peeve, Sub Section VII-A. , # 3600.78,
People, who talk on cell phones, and are doing other things. They put the phone in their arm pit, or what ever, in order to have two free hands, so their speech sounds garbled, and you can't understand them. You have to keep saying "What? Repeat what you said, What? etc."
My brother does this all the time, and I want to strangle him.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Not that I find fault with everybody, It's that everybody does things ,in which the faults don't need much finding.
OK. Pet Peeve, Sub Section VII-A. , # 3600.78,
People, who talk on cell phones, and are doing other things. They put the phone in their arm pit, or what ever, in order to have two free hands, so their speech sounds garbled, and you can't understand them. You have to keep saying "What? Repeat what you said, What? etc."
My brother does this all the time, and I want to strangle him.
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Or, people out in public places using the hands-free option- you think they're talking to you because you can't see the phone, and then they get snarky if you ask them what they said.
 

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