Curse you Brits for bringing us Volmet listening all day, inability to be cleared for an ILS approach, using 121,5 as a practise pan chatroom and now: Continuous dull and patronising PA's. This last bit is for some reason spreading like a plague.
Poor pax having to listen to blabber all day. A normal departure would go like this now: I'm capt. Morgan, welcome onboard please pay attention to the safety demo. A few seconds after a CA welcomes all on behalf of capt. Morgan and 15 minutes later the FO can announce that he is sitting together with capt. Morgan. Did we have enough introductions yet? How are you set for smalltalk? And NO, pax will not become more attentive just because you ask them to.