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Why do they have to write things on the rim of the lens?
"Optical Lens". Good one, just in case we think it's actually a "Sonic Lens". No no, silly me, it could be an "Edible Lens."
"Olympus Wide Zoom Lens". Like it's going to be a sodding Canon lens on an Olympus camera? Even if it were a Canon lens, and it weren't a zoom but instead a 60mm fixed, don't you think you'd KNOW by now having spent good dollar on the camera in the shop?

And why the HELL are we subjected to constant talking through speakers on the underground? If you don't know where you are going on the tube, there are maps (if you were stupid enough not to check your journey before you actually got on a train).

Don't give me the 'blind people' argument. If you are blind, then you've done a bloody impressive job getting yourself onto the right underground train, navigating the unfriendly escalators into the various miserable abysses of our public transport in the first place; I think you'd manage the relatively simple task of COUNTING stops, don't you?

What would we do if there weren't announcements? We'd all be murdered in our beds wouldn't we? How would we know the Charing Cross branch of the Misery Line was closed for engineering works?! Oh no!

How would we know? Well, we would start checking things before our journey. Yes we would, because we would have to. We would think to ourselves "it's a good idea to look at this very clearly written information board" before we embark upon our journey.

Simple. If you need information specific to you, go get it yourself. Don't make the whole bloody world suffer an onslaught of information that probably doesn't affect them. They will only be more confused in the long run, having to strain their ears every time something is announced in a shitty voice you can barely hear anyway.

I hate visual and auditory pollution. Life would be so damned nice if I could interact with the world without it. If I could walk down the tomatoes aisle in Tesco without bloody pictures of tomatoes everywhere. I don't need to see your crap photography of tomatoes when I have the real thing right there on the shelves. Why not just put up the word in nice bold text, nice and high above the aisle so they could be located from the other side of the shop? Perhaps a simple black font, with a pure white background. No tomato photos. I don't mind if you use all-caps. Like this perhaps:

TOMATOES

No need to say "tomatoes here" or "buy tomatoes here" because it's implicit isn't it, really?

I have successfully eliminated advertisements from my life. I use adblock online, I have thrown my television out (I lie - never had one), I don't go anywhere where I am subjected to commercial radio (I try not to walk in the streets where it may be playing), and I try not to read the awful newspapers whose primary reason for existing is to sell me things. And so it greatly upsets me when Tesco play videos about slimming products, the speakers are on the same level as my ears when I am looking at parsnips or avocados.

Life would be wonderful without it all. Failing that I shall continue to do what I normally do, which is to not bother going out. It's pointless isn't it? Unless you need something specifically, it's pointless. There's too much mess outside.

Here’s another sign that the age of the comic book is over.

Back in the day there were dozens of companies that used comics as a way to promote their wears, or business, or point of view, or zinc and I don’t know what. and I don’t just mean those umpty - bumpty gazillion issues of the “Adventures of Big Boy,” with it’s third rate art and no sub-text to the story what-so-ever!

I’m talking people like `Big Bread,’ who hired Walt Kelly of Pogo fame to do their comic, or Fram Motors who got THE man himself Will Eisner to do their comic, and note the price for that thing 15 cents!

I mean it's 1953, on the stands you will find Tales from the Crypt, the golden age Superman and Batman, the short lived commie fighting new version of Captain America, heck even Rex the Wonder Dog and all for only 10 cents! and yet Fram is pretty sure kids will be willing spend that and a another nickel besides for Hoods Up? Yowser!

And then were was Camera Comics, (don’t try this at home kids! What was this the Mtv Jackass gang of Earth 2?) produced by the "U. S. Camera Publishing Corporation” itself to promote photography among youngsters, and not just with articles about how to make your own darkroom or a time delay gadget for a camera, dull whitewashed self-serving illustrated stories about the pioneers of photography, and photo spreads (though it did have that) in it’s 36 pages you found action heroes like Army Air Corp photog The Grey Comet, Linda Lens girl-reporter who used her camera as a blunt instrument to take out Nazi and thugs as often as she used it to take pictures, & Kid Click (the idiot on the cover) and others.

Oh yeah… and there was Buster Brown comics which you could only get at the places that sold those shoes… they had nice art.

Where are the corporate comics of today?

Why no special additions of Y: The Last Man from Victoria’s Secrets?

Too Much Coffee Man Comics from Starbucks? (okay I get the reason for that, but you know what I mean.)

Where is Mac and/or P.C. Comics?

It’s the end I tell ya’ the end of comics!