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Poll Question: Which is more obnoxious to you?
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    Posted: February 19 2013 at 07:16
Generally I mute the sound or change the channel when adverts come on. I can't stand them.

I can't remember the time I actually sat through an entire ad break. Probably some time in the 90's. I don't know why I hate them so much. It's probably soething to do with the kind of skin crawling, grating huour that is often used, especially in car insurence ads featuring fat opera singers and meerkats in smoking jackets for some inexplicable reason.
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I would have included Christmas ads. Wink
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Other tablets are also available.

Some are hard to swallow, they're called suppositories.

Bummer.


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 ... oh, someone's advertising coleslaw.*

* Yeah, yeah, I know, puns went out of fashion a long time ago, but please, let me have this one just this last time.


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Naturally the political ads.
They've driven me to contemplate mass murder and/or suicide.

Tax commercials are hilarious. I can't imagine tax people being that personable and happy, or that excited to do their job. The whole feel of those commercials are just funny
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I've never seen an ad for 'Fish drink their own pee and sleep in it. Stupid fish.' But now I feel left out!!


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LOL That was me that voted for that one.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Other tablets are also available.
Some are hard to swallow, they're called suppositories.

Bummer.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Other tablets are also available.
Some are hard to swallow, they're called suppositories.
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:


Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Not fools are those who have both

That depends on your definition of fool.Geek
One that stands at least above 15% abothe the official foolness line.
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Well this explains why Cloris Leachman is trending.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:


Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Not fools are those who have both

That depends on your definition of fool.Geek
One that stands at least above 15% abothe the official foolness line.
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Other tablets are also available.
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Not fools are those who have both
That depends on your definition of fool.Geek
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^Fools are those who switch a laptop for an iPad.

Not fools are those who have both

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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

iPads are not computers! How has Apple managed to trick the world into switching to an inferior product?
No one's forcing you to buy one.


I never claimed that they were, and I don't see how that's relevant. Do I have to approve of everything I'm not forced to buy?
It seems to be a stock answer, is not applicable here? My mistake. Tongue


I only use it when people are arguing for government intervention to stop a product they don't like. In this case, I am merely complaining. Wink

I think people who trade in their laptops for shiny new iPads with a fraction of the capability and a clunkier interface are fools who are more influenced by marketing than logic, but they have every right to be fools.
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

iPads are not computers! How has Apple managed to trick the world into switching to an inferior product?
No one's forcing you to buy one.


I never claimed that they were, and I don't see how that's relevant. Do I have to approve of everything I'm not forced to buy?
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

iPads are not computers! How has Apple managed to trick the world into switching to an inferior product?
No one's forcing you to buy one.


I never claimed that they were, and I don't see how that's relevant. Do I have to approve of everything I'm not forced to buy?
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