This has been shining in my eyes for the last 10 minutes whilst the bus driver takes a break.
Same goes for LED headlights. “Enjoy looking directly into lasers at night.”
Multi-beam and Matrix LED headlights will cut oncoming traffic out of their beams. They’ll blind you less than any other type of headlight. You can see it best when driving in fog. It’s not expensive tech in 2025 either, that’ a damn Škoda Octavia in the video, I rode in one the other day and it had cheaper plastics in the interior than my first car, a 1992 Audi 80.
It’s mis-aligned headlights that cause the most problems. And people retrofitting HIDs or LEDs into enclosures that are not meant for those.
Whoever*
Whom is an object, who is a subject. An object usually follows prepositions like “to”, so it’s good instinct to use whomever here, but in this case the object is the entire clause “whoever invented …”, so the whoever is the subject of the verb invented.
seriously though whom the fuck cares
But what if someone doesn’t see it? What then?
I haven’t had the displeasure yet.
Anyway here is how to tell if LED sign is cheap
I’m fortunate that the bins on my street are collected twice-daily. The trade-off is that the bins lorries have LED sides. Lights up my entire bedroom when they pull up. I’m also opposite a pub, so every Wednesday morning starting around 7 it’s non-stop clanging from barrel deliveries. I live above two shopfronts, so every morning through midnight is bullshit noises. I live under a lamppost, so the council putting up Christmas lights means a cherry picker staring through my windows. I’m just bitching, but the LED buses and lorries are fuckin wild.
How does your city produce enough trash to justify pickups twice daily? That’s fuckin’ wild lol
It’s London mate, twice a day rubbish pickup on my street and the fuckin place is still full of rats. Still, cheap protein in a pot noodle innit! Some of those fuckers are bigger than cats, fearsome bastards.
Stage coach?
What made you unable to look in a different direction?
Sir, this is c/mildlyinfuriating, let me whinge in peace.
Really? Count the things you’re not allowed to show in public. It’s almost like you can’t go through life with your eyes literally closed so the world doesn’t bother you.
You have to know that, though, so you must be trolling.
Love your username 👍
Thankyou so much :) <3
FYI, your post title should use “whoever”, not “whomever”.
A good trick to tell whether to use “who” or “whom” is to replace “whom” with “him” or “who” with “he”. It’ll be immediately obvious (to a native English speaker) which is correct.
Whomever invented LED bus advertisements becomes Him invented LED bus advertisements
Vs
Whoever invented some stupid shit becomes He invented some stupid shit
Clearly someone needed a technical education as a child.
It says “to”. To whom.
Yes, that’s normally a good rule to follow, since “whom” is for a sentence’s object, but this is a special case. The clause in question is either a salutation that has no subject or object, and so either “whoever” or “whomever” is correct, or it’s a subject clause (a noun phrase, really) with an unnecessary, stylized “to” for the sake of comedic impact, in which case “whoever” would be correct.
Having been to Manchester very recently, I can think of bigger things to complain about.
(Not that I have room to talk, being in Blackburn.)
How is your move to the UK going? How do you find it compared to the US?
I love it so much more than the U.S., but I really need to find a job that pays enough to get my wife over here and get my daughter off a tourist visa. But it has only been two weeks.
Anyway, just the fact that, despite the British having a reputation for rudeness, people here are so nice and helpful compared to everyone’s “fuck you, I got my own shit going on” attitude in the U.S. We have had so many people, total strangers, help us in one way or another in the past two weeks.
The rudeness comes from London mostly. When you pack people too close together, they tend to develop a bunch of social rules, to keep sane. Those rules are unspoken and dynamic. That also cause an impressive reaction when you break them by mistake. It’s quite common worldwide, but London it particular about them.
Once you’re clear of the big smoke, and get a feel for the lingo and etiquette, we are actually quite a friendly bunch.
I’m sure I’ve seen them with the side panel showing the route the bus was travelling on.
No surprise that they eventually gave that up for ad money.
Next step will be to have that screen in colour and animated. And speakers.
You mean like these?
Wake up babe, new Ad Block just dropped.
Slingshot would give you more range
I always keep an eye out for the comments that would be the most incomprehensible shown in the last century.
Saw one of those yesterday. Should be super illegal, they’re so bright.
Technical education opens doors, or your child.
Please don’t open my child.
Put the knife away Waltuh
I saw this, too, and I don’t even have a child.
(psssst ackshually it says “for”)
Looks like it’s supposed to say that, but currently doesn’t. Lol
Why you gotta ruin it for us?
Alternate question: How powerful of a laser do you need to burn out the LEDs on those sort of displays?
At least three.
Maybe even four.
Truly mildly infuriating. Nicely done.
At the very least, can they not be blue? It’s the worst color at night.
Red would be best–it fucks with your eyes the least–but there’s often legal limits on red lights (besides brake/turn signals) on non-emergency vehicles. Something in orange or yellow would be less harsh.
