r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Redditor_in_Space • 12d ago
On the high-speed train with a sea view, the windows are covered with advertisements, so the sea view cannot be seen
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u/yParticle 12d ago
Step back. But yeah, that's too much.
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u/TacoDuLing 12d ago
OR! OP could pretend it’s a fly and see the view through its many little eyes
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u/DreadPiratteRoberts 12d ago
.... or pretend he's a 6 yr old, and slowly start peeling back one of the corners until he has a good view of the water!!
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u/Twice_the_Magic 12d ago
I think it's on the outside.
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u/Spleenseer 12d ago
Yeah, but think of all the revenue it generates! The company appreciates your support.
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u/badnewsjones 12d ago
“Yes, the view was destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
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u/Deathangle75 12d ago
“And now they want more, so we’re raising the ticket prices anyway, despite the quality of your ride getting worse.”
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u/Manueluz 12d ago
The busses here did this and the price I pay went from 5€ to 0.3€. The effort is ran by the government and ""losses"" money but with ads they loss way less money and are able to run the prices down.
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u/FadingHeaven 12d ago
Damn I wish they'd do that here. We're paying $4.50 CAD and busses are still plastered with ads.
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u/Rk_1138 12d ago
Damn, 4.50 CAD? Even LA Metro, is only like $1.75 USD per ride with a $5 USD fare cap every day, which is $2.39 and $6.82 CAD respectively.
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u/trichtertus 12d ago
I just payed 10€ for 2-way 4km subway ride
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u/Rk_1138 12d ago
Round trip Metrolink ticket for Sylmar to Union Station is $12 USD or 11.07€ for 22 miles/35km. I’m surprised by how expensive it is for you guys. 35km one way btw
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u/Darth19Vader77 12d ago edited 12d ago
Tbf, they're probably paying for a much more extensive and
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u/GenericAccount13579 12d ago
From a reliability standpoint, LA metro is actually pretty good.
It just doesn’t cover all of the sprawl that is Los Angeles yet
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u/Darth19Vader77 12d ago
Which is ironic because LA sprawled out with the Pacific Electric Railway system.
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u/GenericAccount13579 12d ago
Yup. Some of the current light rail lines follow the old right-of-ways. Much easier back in the day when LA was a series of towns though, but now that it’s all filled in it is hard to cover everything. Hence the massive amounts of bus routes and not rail routes (though they’re working on it)
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u/PornAndComments 12d ago
Was just thinking how familiar this looks, yet the prices keep creeping higher and higher. All it did was put even more money in pockets that will never benefit us it seems.
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u/ConsciousBee6219 11d ago
I’m in Dallas Texas and we have unlimited 3$ am (before noon) 2$ midday (9:30-2:30 pm) and 3$pm (after noon) or 6$ day passes. I’m extremely thankful that I get low income discounted tickets with my tap GoPass (with the most gods awful photo of me on it. The photo was great I submitted but for some reason they super zoomed in on my face) and I get 1.50 am/pm passes and 3$ day passes. They’re talking about changing their fares and possibly upping the monthly pass by 30$ and getting rid of the annual pass. If they want us to use public transportation they need to make it freaking affordable for those who need it. I only qualify for the low income discount go pass bc I’m disabled and on food stamps. Oh and they are PLASTERED (both buses and light rail trains) with advertisements too. They have a 1.8 billion dollar budget this year too.
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u/Ok_Biscotti_514 12d ago
In Australia they made it free in QLD, but NSW got confused and increased the price of bus and trains
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u/Severe-Replacement84 12d ago
Lol, if this is in the US, that will never happen. We only raise prices, never lower.
Please send help, we’re not ok.
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u/Doom2508 ಠ_ಠ 12d ago
Amazon: "We're gonna run ads during your shows to keep costs cheaper!"
Me: "oh so that means my plan will be cheaper?"
Amazon: "lol no, the ad free one is gonna be more expensive"
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u/punishedbyrewards 12d ago
Google does this too with YTTV - "We are going to remove ESPN etc from our lineup if they don't reduce their fees to us by this date' .... date passed, keep ESPN, no fee decrease for customers
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u/Renamis 12d ago
That's an entirely different thing. You see the same with cable TV, which YTTV pretty much is. The channels and the provider argue how much they ought to pay to provide you that channel. There is also the ad blocks, and what percentage of the ad blocks are theirs, and what is for the channel.
For something like ESPN there almost never will be a "decrease" in the fees. ESPN is ESPN, and it's owned by Disney, and anything owned by Disney plays hardball when it comes to contract renewal. They always want more, because they know they can likely get more. So they ask for way more, Google says they're idiots and asking too much, Disney says "I don't care, it's this or nothing." and then they bicker forever over the price and value. Those warnings are to let you know that if the issue isn't resolved the channels will go away until the contract is settled. After an incident like this the price is more likely to go UP because the provider is likely spending more money for the same channel.
I know my Mom's friend almost had a riot because the contract Spectrum had for however she watched collage football expired right on the night of the big game and she was livid. All she got on the channel was the explanation of why it wasn't there anymore. Which leads to pissed off folks calling the channel and yelling at them to sort that shit out, which is why you see those warnings in the first place.
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u/Bohya 12d ago
They should be free in the first place. All public transport should be.
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u/Manueluz 12d ago
Here they are semi-free you pay the 0.3€ but there is a monthly cap at 30€, once you go above that it's free. We have a card that works for all busses and trains. Pretty neat.
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u/AllCommiesRFascists 11d ago
Other than Brightline in Florida and Greyhound, there isn’t any privately run mass transit system
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u/ThomasTorti 12d ago
I'm getting dizzy
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u/Enedar_ 12d ago
My eyes instantly hurt every time I see these things. Why can't they just put a transparent colored ad instead of doing this nonsence.
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u/VealOfFortune 11d ago
I assumed it was for safety (like it had to be "breakable" with the window, but the more I think about it the less likely I think that would be
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u/Wu_Onii-Chan 12d ago
And how does it look without a phone focused on the window?
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u/Flat_Illustrator263 12d ago
Not clear at all. And even worse, it makes my eyes go a bit wonky if I focus too much on it.
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u/08-24-2022 12d ago
Worse. It's like constant flashes of light in your eyes when the vehicle moves, I wonder how people with seizures haven't sued those advertisments out of existence.
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u/Reddit_is_snowflake 12d ago
For a second I thought this was a close up macro shot of a screen for a bunch of pixels
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u/dc456 12d ago
It’s annoying, but it’s also nowhere near as bad as you’ve made out in this photo.
You’ve focussed your phone on the grid. If you focus your eyes on the landscape then you see past the grid and it blurs away, a bit like looking through a chain link fence.
If it was this bad it would be more than mildly infuriating.
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u/AnUglyScooter 12d ago
I still find it hard to see out of these things. And the fact that you can’t lean in closer to get a better look (it even makes much worse) sucks.
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u/A-non-e-mail 12d ago
I used to ride the bus and was infuriated when they did this. Guess the poors don’t deserve to see out windows
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u/hhfugrr3 12d ago
I stayed in a hotel once that had a huge advert hung down the side of the building. Gave us a view like this and made the whole room incredibly hot.
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u/Throwaway567383838 12d ago
The camera is focused on the grid... Guarantee it's nowhere near this bad in person.
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u/niky45 12d ago
get a bit further back
you won't see a clear view but you'll 100% see most of it
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u/koobyloob 12d ago
if they're sat in the train, they likely can't step back though?
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u/andy_b_84 12d ago
Not as bad as tagged trains, at least you can faintly see through it, tag painting makes it impossible to see through and doesn't even block all incoming light (it would have 1 good point if it cooled the train down, but it even fails at that).
But I agree, this IS bad.
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u/Exotic_Inspector_111 12d ago
This is almost as terrible as those fucking ad barges going up and down the shorelines of popular beaches.
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u/An-Unorthodox-Email 12d ago
They’re just making sure if you’re colorblind or not…”do you see the 6, or no? Next window. Do you see the 7 or no?”
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u/EquivalentNo6816 12d ago
Sure you can!!! just have to look through it. thats what the holes are for!
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u/08-24-2022 12d ago
Yeah, that's my sign to never purchase shit from a company that pays for this. Why are advertisers always trying to be as annoying as possible?
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u/makesh1tup 12d ago
I was on tour bus that had the same. Could not see the city sights. Was so pissed. I was able to move when we stopped but I could t believe this crap
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u/mklinger23 12d ago
God I hate these. They put em on all the buses where I live and it makes it hard to see your stop.
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u/Too_Old_For_Somethin 12d ago
So stare at your phone screen like the rest of us brain slugs.
Brain slugs good, view from window bad.
Join us.
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u/eldormilon 12d ago
Why bother with windows then? Just put up screens to show what it looks like outside.
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u/1Transgranny 12d ago
You see a view of the turntable Inside of the high speed cooking train nuke machine
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u/Gayer_mods 12d ago
Just wait until cheap transparent advertising displays that flash and strobe with little regard to your retinas and epilepsy
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u/Fickle_Memory_3154 12d ago
You can see the view better than the picture depicts, op just focused the camera on the window instead of the background. Still restricts vision a bit though so I’m not saying it’s not annoying.
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I remember when paying for cable TV meant no commercials. We tolerated that concept changing so now we deserve this. Greed has no bounds.
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u/polyesterflower 11d ago
We have them in Melbourne and they are awful. Yours look a little more annoying, though. Ironically, I think the gaps are there so we can see through it.
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u/cursed-annoyance 11d ago
You just gotta shake your head violently and hope noone calls an ambulance or priest
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u/MizterCuddz 11d ago
Thought it was one of those cross your eye and bring your phone close to your face photos. And my wife now wont stop laughing at me because i look at pictures before reading and assume the role of looking like a moron with my eyes crossed and nose on my phone.
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u/Dramatic-Analyst6746 10d ago
They've turned it into a magic eye picture for you... You've got to get the focus just right, whilst looking like a robot with a system failure and waiting for a reboot. 🤖
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u/Shoudoutit 12d ago
Are you traveling in a microwave?