Mildly Infuriating

Technical education opens doors, or your child.

Please don’t open my child.

I’m surprised that’s legal. You’d think it would distract other drivers

In my area once in awhile I'll see this box truck where it's covered in LED screens with animated ads on it that drives around. Annoying at best, a road hazard at worst.

to whomever invented ~~LED~~ advertisements.

fuck being bombarded with literal propaganda all day.

I think such things are banned in Australia. Clearly not safe for traffic.

They do need to be that bright at daytime, and most indeed use automatic brightness by default. If only there was a technology that could use daylight instead of fighting it...

Ffs of all the colors they could have used too.

We for real need to start legislating and enforcing brightness laws. These headlights are out of control. This thing is an abomination.

There is no rhyme or reason for anything beyond a reasonable street lamp and headlight. We kept asking could we, it's time to ask should we? If nothing else I miss seeing stars at night

Shit that’s bright af.

I saw one of those big rig trucks where the trailer was completely covered in LED advertising displays, on the left, right and back.

One of the ads was regarding broken phones, saying something along the lines of 'broken glass is a good thing'. Don't quote me on the exact wording though, I only saw that ad once, but it was regarding trade-ins and upgrades.

Kinda ironic to have such an ad displayed on a truck where you're tempted to bust their display with a sledgehammer...

It looks like a UK bus. If you want to help make the bus company's life miserable there is a useful trick. This is the sort of thing a lot of parish council members will get disproportionately angry about. They also tend to have far less to do than higher bits of government. They also know a lot more about the inner workings of local government, and who's ear to burn about it. A politely written letter (or a few from several people) can get them up in arms about it.

Once you set that in motion, wait a week or 2, then also contact the local papers about it. I've seen them roll with far smaller stories than this.

Neither group has much/any hard power, but the soft power of the NIMBY croud can be extremely effective against public facing companies.

Edit to add.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/artificial-light-nuisances-how-councils-deal-with-complaints

It could be argued that that light is a statutory nuisance.

I read

"Technical Education Opens Doors

OR

Your Child"

I though it was a threat to either go to college, or satan takes your child as a sacrifice for being ignorant.

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.

Same goes for LED headlights. "Enjoy looking directly into lasers at night."

road advertisement in general should be illegal, it's literally MADE to distract drivers

Truly mildly infuriating. Nicely done.

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.

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

here just the city lights, and city street high beamers, and tall trucks that have only high beams and higher beams... anyway those are blinding enough as it is

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.)

Wait until you see the ones with video screens...

https://technoframe.com/led-bus-screens

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.

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.