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Blacksword 
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 Topic: TV Adverts: Love or hate??
Posted: September 10 2007 at 16:29 |
I hate them. Completely hate them. I mute the sound, leave the house and run screaming down the street tearing my clothes off, until I'm arrested. Consequently I always miss the rest of the program. I really must get a grip..
Any thoughts?
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 16:33 |
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BANG! and the dirt is gone.
Cillit bang!
Erm... there's some good one, Andy, such as erm... the old Carling Black Label Dambusters one, the few Stella Artois ones (the adverts are actually better than the lager!) and the ones with reasomably good themes.
One advert (I forget which one), has music done by Mike Ratledge, formerly of Soft Machine.
Generally though, I hate 'em.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 16:40 |
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Ooh - I do like that nice man from the Safestyle Windows ad!
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 16:43 |
You mean Ken  ing Morley? You bar steward, Jim! Oh, you mean the Bog off guy... Jim, I now hate you.
Edited by Geck0 - September 10 2007 at 16:45
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Dean
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 16:49 |
Some are good, some are bad, most are bleugh.
Sometimes it's worth timeslipping a program just so you can skip the Ads.
I quite like the one they have in the USA of the gecko with the cockerney accent - I haven't got a clue what it's for, but 'twas amusing somewhat.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 16:59 |
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That's me that is, Dean. I am the gecko in those GEICO insurance adverts.
A cockerknee.
Actually, I dislike the cockney accent immensely.
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Vompatti
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 17:03 |
Sometimes I mute the sound, sometimes I see what's on other channels, sometimes I do nothing. But what do you mean, "something rude"? Surely not ?
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 17:05 |
 Geck0 wrote:
You mean Ken ing Morley? You bar steward, Jim!Oh, you mean the Bog off guy...Jim, I now hate you.
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You buy one, you get one free...
I said..you buy one you get one free!! 
I think my problem is that I object to being shouted at by sh!theads trying to sell me crap, when I'm trying to watch my favourite program.
In the UK, we have forgotten how to make funny adverts. These days, humour in our ads usually conists of a man in a suit, doing something that you wouldn't expect a man in a suit to do; singing a silly song, acting in a way deemed to 'whackey' pulling face like a carrier bag in a wind tunnel.
mmm, one for the ranting room, methinks..
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Jared
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 17:09 |
has anyone noticed that the volume during ads is generally higher than that of the TV programme you were watching??
I have to say that being as I won't watch ITV on principle (anything that calls itself 'the people's channel' has to be guilty of dumbing down to the lowest common knuckle dragger...gee, Jim Garten could be writing this....  ) while C4 tends to be restricted to their Evening News and Dispatches... this problem is a relatively small one for me....
...but I tend to switch channels and put on Ceefax instead...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Jared
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 17:11 |
Blacksword wrote:
You buy one, you get one free...
I said..you buy one you get one free!!
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yes, its funny how some people think that the general public will buy their goods if you give them a good shouting at.... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 17:16 |
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The problem I have, is that there's a lot of old BBC shows on Digital, but they're filled with adverts inbetween!
I was watching some old episodes of Coast a while back, only to find it gets interrupted by crappy adverts.
They're not BBC owned though, so I guess they need their funding.
Advert people also select certain adverts for certain programs.
For the football, you'll get beer, car and Lynx adverts.
For Countdown, you'll get walk-in bath, codliver oil, pile cream, stair-lifts adverts and that annoying advert with Joanna Lumley in it (Privelege).
Between soaps, you'll get Cillit Bang, Daz and all those rubbish adverts.
Edited by Geck0 - September 10 2007 at 17:17
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Dean
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 17:18 |
Geck0 wrote:
That's me that is, Dean. I am the gecko in those GEICO insurance adverts.
A cockerknee.
Actually, I dislike the cockney accent immensely.
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having been born with an Estuary accent that living most of my life away from Essex has failed to rid me of and that most people who live north of Hemel Hempstead believe is a cockney accent, I find Cockerney, cockaknee and mockney accents highly amusing - like the one James Marrrrsters adopted as Spike in Buffy.
psuedo-scientific beauty treatment and health food ads get my goat. 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 17:52 |
I turn the TV down a wee bit.
But some Ads are GREAT!
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sleeper
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 18:56 |
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There is occaisionally an amusing advert, but normally I loath them with a passion.
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laplace
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 18:58 |
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I spend too much time looking at THIS idiot box to notice the adverts on the other
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 18:59 |
You mean like that terrible one with Lewis Hamilton in, Andy? 
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Peter
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 22:42 |
TV shows in general are for brain dead idiots, so why should the ads be any different? 
Turn the TV off. Put some music on, and read a book!
Or you could watch your houseplants grow -- that will be more intellectually stimulating than the average TV show.
(Don't forget to breathe while you're at it, though. )
 I heard a good ad tonight, BTW -- some sort of women's beauty lotion: "Look up to eight years younger in 12 days!" My -- how do they measure these things?  "You look exactly eight years younger, Mary (not nine, though -- that'll be next year's lotion)."
Another one promises hair that is " 40% shinier." Such precision! Imagine the top-secret, high-tech equipment they measure these things with!
There's a sucker born every minute......
Edited by Peter - September 10 2007 at 22:44
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Peter
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 22:47 |
BTW, Crack-scored, where's the "open an artery" option?
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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rileydog22
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Posted: September 10 2007 at 23:15 |
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If a commercial has really annoyinig music (like that goddamned John Meloncamp song!) I mute it, otherwise I ignore it.
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 05:17 |
fandango wrote:
has anyone noticed that the volume during ads is generally higher than that of the TV programme you were watching??
I have to say that being as I won't watch ITV on principle (anything that calls itself 'the people's channel' has to be guilty of dumbing down to the lowest common knuckle dragger...gee, Jim Garten could be writing this.... ) while C4 tends to be restricted to their Evening News and Dispatches... this problem is a relatively small one for me....
...but I tend to switch channels and put on Ceefax instead... |
I once heard it claimed, by some ITV bod, that the volume doesn't go up in the ads. But of course you know it does..because it gets louder!!! 
They treat us like idiots.. 
I am on the verge of making the reluctant swtich over to digital - because I have to - and of course my new set top box wont work with my current ariel. I bought a booster, which doesn't make an iota of difference. I need a new ariel. That'll cost me! I draw the line at getting a SKY dish. If it comes to that, I'll simply go without TV. I'm not giving Rupert Murdoch £30 a month for 100+ channels of dogsh!t, and re-runs of the Vicar of Dibley.
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