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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Heldi on September 16, 2006, 20:56:36
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Don't they just drive you nuts.
Claudia Schieffer (I don't care if I've spelled her name wrong)selling some gunk...
"My wrinkles look filled and so is my life"
Lordy lordy ::) Who on earth falls for that line??!! You aint got a life unless you've filled those trenches ladies!
Then something that raises a laugh everytime I hear it
Iams cat food
"I don't know what I'd do without my furry alarm clock"
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Just spilt cider down my T shirt reading those ... ;D
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Heldi,
Glad someone else has spotted the utter blige that dear Claudia is spouting on behalf of some multinational conglomerate that really and truely doesn't give a monkeys about our real lives and instead tries to undermine us by making us feel like second-class citizens for having a few wrinkles.
It's the way she picks up that little boy and says "now my life is filled... blah blah blah". What are they implying - that if you have no kids and/or wrinkles you are a hopeless case? (mind you, have found that having kids DOES increase the wrinkle factor by 100% ;))
A good friend of mine has been trying for children for years with no success and no hope of paying for IVF. she says that every time she sees that ad, she wants to smash the TV and then have a good cry. >:(
I'm glad there's some of us out there that aren't getting fooled by this rubbish.... we know we're "worth it" whatever we use on our wrinkles!! ;D
Tabby
Haven't seen the Iams one, but I do have a furry alarm clock - he doesn't like cat food though, prefers steak & chips, snores like a drain and regularly wakes me up by inconsideratley leaving for work at half five in the morning!! ;D ;D
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These annoy me too Heldi! What is wrong with a few wrinkles? Does that mean you shouldn't smile or laugh because it crinkles around your eyes? Who cares!!! The "because your worth it" adverts really make my blood boil! When you know half of these actresses and models have had surgery and it has got nothing to do with the products they have used! ::) busy_lizzie
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... and what about the idiots in yellow roll necks, with tashes and floppy hair, and numbers on their chests ... has to be the worst I've ever seen!
... sad to think some bod is actually PAID to think these up ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Calm down, they're just commercials ;D
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>:(
because of that stupid Surf ad!
My 4 year old daughter thinks you have to take your pants and top off, if you stand near the kerb!!!!
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You're joking right?
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nope
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Oh dear, so sorry
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Ah, the advantages of so rarely watching commercial television!
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Don't worry Mummy has now told her it is made up!
The poor family member who she was on a walk with then she came out with this nearly had a heart attack. Thought someone had told her that at school but we guess that it was the ad.
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ha ha ha ha ha ha! lol, Growing Family! Kids are too funny! hee hee hee heee. That made me laugh.
Ads are crap, I use the time when they're on to channel-surf myself...
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Just goes to show how their little minds work! ::)
TGF :D
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the pet food ones are the ones that rile me up the most >:(
is your dog as fit as a butchers dog?
yes actually mine is, mine eats meat, bones and offal. not the processed cack in a tin that you are trying to sell me!
pedegree (or whoever it was) have proved that dogs like different textures in there food!
sensible dog, give him some real food. meat on the bone and some green tripe should do the trick ;D
whiskas. 9 out of 10 cats prefer it! really? 9 out of 10 cats would prefer a half dead sparrow (not condoning this btw, but cats are cats).
i feed mine (yep, you guessed it...) meat, bones and offal ;D
buy new (insert whatever brand here), now with 4% (or whatever stupid figure it is these days) real meat!!!!!
woop de doo!! my rats get more than that just by biting me ::)
i'll get off my high horse now ;D
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Guess who hasn't even got a telly, but has two reasonably sane teenage sons!
::)
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Ever noticed how tinned cat food seems to contain ash? Why? [Other than it's a very cheap ingriedent so makes lots of profit].
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I know this is a rant....but I do so love the Mint, or is it Egg (see, the ads don't work!) credit cards where they say one good thing means something stupid is happening somewhere else. It is the man about to do some pull up exercises and he hits his head on the doorframe! oooooooo, makes me chuckle everytime! Shame I know! ::)
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Ever noticed how tinned cat food seems to contain ash? Why? [Other than it's a very cheap ingriedent so makes lots of profit].
profit over species appropriate nutrition????
surely not ::) ::)
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John West salmon, the only ad worth watching, the rest are kackydoody
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kackydoody! noted! ;D
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Hard drive recorders, its the way forward, pause and fast forward live TV, its a god send!!
With regard to the "face filler" make up gunk...do you all think they make the names of the ingredients up, I suppose if we really knew what went into them they would never sell...Tallow, Whale blubber...doesn't sound as good as boswalox serum SG4 does it ;D ;D
Regards
Matt
I made the techie bit up...maybe its a mixture of stuff that I have heard!
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Matt you should have started that post with ..."And now for the science bit" lol!
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Personal injury ads, grrrrrr >:(
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Those one's for that loan company, picture i think - they make borrowing £25 grand seem as trivial as booking table in a resturant, i think not.
And another loan company ad, with the bloke with mower that blows up - if he did'nt go round buying stuff like a ride on lawn mower big enough to cut old trafford, only to use a lawn as big as postage stamp - perhaps he would'nt be in so much debt!
Oh and - limescale, LIMESCALE??!! :o :o YES fecking limescale you stupid b*itch !
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Keef, I will not quote your post as I do not wish to continue it, but remember this is not the Watershed, and can be viewed by the whole internet community. I appreciate that you may find the limescale advert annoying, but are your comments really necessary?
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Keef, I will not quote your post as I do not wish to continue it, but remember this is not the Watershed, and can be viewed by the whole internet community. I appreciate that you may find the limescale advert annoying, but are your comments really necessary?
Sorry - but you are taking the piss aren'nt you ?
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Not at all, I find your language offensive and inappropriate. And your reply merely endorses that.
Your alteration is acceptable - thank you.
MY apologies to Heldi and others for interrupting an amusing thread.
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Come on mate, you must be having a laugh, surley.
Do you work for calgon?
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Not at all, I find your language offensive and inappropriate. And your reply merely endorses that.
Your alteration is acceptable - thank you.
MY apologies to Heldi and others for interrupting an amusing thread.
Well you could have ignored the thread..........same as keef ::) ::) ::)
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Why would I want to ignore an entertaining thread in the Shed? However, I will not disturb this thread any more with these irrelevant debates.
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Its a shame you disturbed it in the first place.
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Calm down guys! If anything just shows how ads heat the blood. Years ago I got a 'really good job' in advertising - thought I'd cracked it. Loathsome industry, I left this opportunity to someone else (probably somone with designs on lots of money and little ethical conscience) after a year and never looked back! CLx
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Just that your usually quick to the ignore button when you see something you don't like......... I took it as I thought keef intended it ......in jest..... do remember
this IS 2006 ;D
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I don't like smart alec ads. Like the one of a man painting his fence and his neighbour comes out with a paint spray to the sound of the laughing policeman. I'd like to shove that spray where the sun don't shine!
My favourite advert is still the Guinness one with the surfers and the white horses. I quite like most of the Guinness ads to be honest but I wouldn't drink the stuff. Well thats not true, I have done when it was on promotion at the pub ;)
You know what...my mother mentioned the surf advert but went into detail about how the person who nicks the underpants must be sniffing them...MOTHER !!!!!
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I don't know what you mean Heldi ::) ::) ;D ;)
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Ain't life a b i t c h ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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bad up ba ba baaa We're loving it !
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I said yu buy one yu get one free, I said yu... grrrrrr
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We have stopped mentioning ..you buy one, you get one free round here, if you were intrested, you dont. Its a con, the rep told us. Also when they come to survey they put their feet through pebble pools and wont admit to it.
Hope they dont cancel footie!
Regards
Matt
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Seeing as i am on the ignore button from misery guts would someone please tell him that maybe he should know who the site owner and moderator is do tell him it is DAN. Then next time maybe know all will think twice before correcting people. Keef we are all adults here. so go buy one get one free Hahaha.
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;D
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Your alteration is acceptable - thank you.
MY apologies to Heldi and others for interrupting an amusing thread.
What on earth is going on here :o As "an other" I'd like to point out that Dan has provided us with the facilities of private PM if one wishes, in gentlemanly fashion, to comment to another poster on the suitability of a post and suggest it be modified or, in extremis, the prod-a-mod button to alert Dan to make a decision. Enough, surely?....
Back to TV adverts....there's this one I REALLY love....thing is at the moment can't remember it :-[ The Power of Advertising don't cut no ice with Penshners with short-term memory loss ;D
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I can't get over that stinky little boy on the toilet who presses the spray but doesn't wash his hands after he's finished lol!
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My gripe at this time of year in particular are the trillions of kids toy adverts to prep the little darlings for Christmas! If I see barbie one more time!! :-X And our worlds worst annoying at the moment......all together now...'They're gunna taste great, they're gunna taste great........' and 'he had dads pants in the middle of his roll, dads pants in the middle of his role.' You can poke your Frosties anywhere you please, and as for dads pants......GGRR!
:P
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Heldi and we all know you are quite capable of answering for yourself LOL.
I think nearly all the television adverts have been covered,.These days I watch very little television but years ago, probably before you were born Heldi the one that made me put the kettle on was the DAZ one. It went on and on. Better not repeat the language I used ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Better not repeat the language I used ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Lorna, worse than repeating the language would be to substitute asterisks....trying to work out the last lot has made The Times crossword a doddle :P ;D
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;D ;D Blimey Lish I can't even pronounce some of the words printed in the times :'(
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I don't read out loud, Lorna ;D
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worse than repeating the language would be to substitute asterisks....trying to work out the last lot has made The Times crossword a doddle :P ;D
Here's a clue!
An expletive heard mainly in Ireland, often used there by respectable elderly ladies. ;D
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I've changed it back to the orginal text now, what a load fuss about nothin i'm sure most will agree.
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DASH?
..mainly in Ir(elan)d = impetuosity/dash. 8) ;D
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I've changed it back to the orginal text now, what a load fuss about nothin i'm sure most will agree.
Well, dash me! ;) Much ado about nothing or wot? :-\
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Keef was asking for it though ..... look ...
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,57/topic,24490.0
(http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)
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Well I go away for the day and look what happens!
There is a tendency on all forums for people to try to get round the profanity filter - it is really quite easy to do....
However,
Please don't!
I know it seems gentle language to some, perhaps even most, but children do read this website, and I know parents give children access, and bar them from seeing the watershed. I think that should be sufficient.
I know my comments will be taken by some as evidence of how boring I am, but hey ho!
That is all I've got to say on the issue.
Dan
PS
The most annoying advert in the world is .....
Anything with Carol Vorderman
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I got so sick of being told that Ricicles was Twicicles as Nicicles (as Whaticles?) when I was a kid that I just switched off ads. Nowadays I usually use ad breaks to get a cup of tea anyway, if I do happen to be watching the gogglebox.
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hmm, surely the BEST advert has to be the Walls advert with the scrotty little dog fighting its owner for the sausages, charging after an imaginary cat and then hitting the window trying to get back in .... makes me laugh every time I see it.
Sorry,small things ...
.... I'll get me coat
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No Dan the most boring advert is that stupid AA bloke upside a moving car flogging his breakdown cover, give me strength, we always mug the sound or make a cuppa.
Dan i do not think anyone on here thinks you are boring, in fact most of us applaud you for being so tolerant in certain circumstances. I think you would make a lovely boss. ;D Giss a job Hahaha!!
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MC55 I have just cracked up by just being reminded of that one. Better get my coat as well. I am a dog lover ...honest.
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very funny thread complet with fisticuffs I agree with ?? about the picture loans
I find it offensive as I have been through bad debt including that way out which
wasn't a way out but a way further in I'm glad to say through hard work and with the help of the CAB we'r out the other end and even kept our home and evenfinished paying for our home
sorry too be serious but that advert GRRR
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An ex-boyfriend loves the British adverts saying that the ones in New Zealand were rubbish.
Not had a tv for 5 years now, but I do watch tv whenever I visit my mum. I love the Smash advert - the robot-type aliens. Can't stand Prunella Scales in the Tesco ads (though she is brilliant in Ladies of Letters with Patricia Routledge). I don't drink beer - but used to like the Hoffmeister snooker ad.
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Quote -"Hard drive recorders, its the way forward, pause and fast forward live TV, its a god send!!"
We do this to avoid adverts, in fact we were recording TV one night and watching it the next to Fast-forward through the adverts
Quote -"With regard to the "face filler" make up gunk...do you all think they make the names of the ingredients up, I suppose if we really knew what went into them they would never sell...Tallow, Whale blubber...doesn't sound as good as boswalox serum SG4 does it "
I can't tell you what our nickname for boswellox is in this house - but it starts with "Dogs" and is a slang for very very good! ;D
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Glad you got sorted out marge - I think those adverts should be banned as they make it all sound so simple yet their interest rates are very high & it all leads to more problems.
My funniest ad is the beer one where the dog went hurtling out of the window, always made me laugh & I am sure 'no animals were hurt during the filming etc'.
Perhaps I'll join Lorna & with me coat on!
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Have limited the amount of "telly with ads" that my 2 girls watch as every other ad seems to be for loans and debt consolidation companies. It's totally unacceptable that they are showing these ads between kids programmes.
What must they be learning from this? Even if they're really not paying attention, it's still sinking into their brains! I think I heard somewhere that Martin Lewis, the Radio2 money guy, has apparently launched a campaign to ban these kind of ads on children's channels.
Even more worrying - my eldest (6) can quote the whole of the "Churchill" advert - complete with Vic Revees style accent! ;D
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Oh, that Churchill advert really gets on my nerves. >:(
I also hate Michael Winner adverts as they are so patronising. >:( >:(
This is an extract from his awful website:
About me:
Hi, I'm Michael Winner. Welcome to MichaelSpace(!) You may remember me from such hilarious TV commercials as the Esure adverts. In fact, I'm sure you do. It's quite hard to forget the amusing catchphrase: "Calm down dear, it's a commercial."
He now has another Esure advert out and the video of it is on his website at: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=45234908
It's just as awful as the first and would in no way entice me to buy their insurance.......in fact the opposite, I would avoid it like the plague. ::)
Does Michael Winner get up anyone elses nose?
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Pauline. Yes he does ;D
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trouble is we do remember what they are saying don't we. the name sticks in the back of the mind after the irritation wears off
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I remember him and the catchphrases, but not the name of the company, so the ads are a failure. :)
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There is some most entertaining ( i thought) remixed adverts here:
http://www.luckykazoo.com/2005/03/cillit-bang-remix.html (http://www.luckykazoo.com/2005/03/cillit-bang-remix.html)
hope this works
Regards
Matt