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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

But where else can one go gor a 'Bonza Car Insurance Deal'...?

Insurance?

This is the one currently getting my dander up & making me have inappropriately violent thoughts:



Oooooohh yes!

No

Oooooooooohhhh off!!



Do I think I could kick that dog into next week??

Oooooooohhhh yes!!!

It's the idea of a phrase being repeated, gradually getting louder and louder that gets to me. It's like drip torture, and to think there are some people who think this approach to pursuading you to part with money is funny.
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You know, Porksword Wink, I tried to "put the kettle on" during an ad once, but I just couldn't get it over my head. Pinch
 
What would you suggest?
 
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have you tried drawing the curtains or perhaps running a bath?
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

You know, Porksword Wink, I tried to "put the kettle on" during an ad once, but I just couldn't get it over my head. Pinch
 

What would you suggest?

 


Depends on the size of the kettle. I would suggest removing the bottom and getting your wife to stand on a stool and quickly 'ram' it down over your head. Covering your ears in vaseline beforehand should minimise serious injury!

Failing that, just fill it with water, plug it into the socket and make a nice cup of tea.

Note: If doing the latter - making tea - it is not advisable to remove the bottom of the kettle first..
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although good news might hopefully be at hand...Big%20smile
 
I heard on Radio 4 this morning that the Financal services industry will be forced to tighten up their lending policies... Stern%20Smile
 
I'm hoping this will mean a return to the good old days when banks would only lend money to the sections of society who don't need to borrow any...Approve
 
in turn, this might mean a sharp reduction in the number of inane adverts from companies offering to consolidate Sun reader's debts, loans, credit card bills and hire purchase agreements into one affordable monthly sum...Ermm
 
(stretching for the next 75 years into the future, with an added clause enabling your children to pick up your debt, once you've been admitted into a nursing home...)...Dead
 
but for the rest of us, let's hope we just may have seen the last of the chap walking a tightrope, overburdedned with empty white boxes...Pinch
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

You know, Porksword Wink, I tried to "put the kettle on" during an ad once, but I just couldn't get it over my head. Pinch
 
What would you suggest?
 
 
Oh come on, Peter...your adverts simply can't be as uniformly inane as ours....Stern%20Smile
 
 
 
(oh hang on a minute...you live in North America, don't you...Embarrassed)
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Jared, perhaps you should see Italian TV ads - though I have to say that the American ones really take the cake in terms of inanity and ridiculousness. Anyway, I have solved the problem by adopting a radical solution... I don't watch TV anymore, at least not when at home in Rome. I watched my fair share when in the US, and the commercials irritated the heck out of me.
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^^^ you're far too intelligent to be watching adverts, Raff... didn't you know they erode your brain through osmosis???Wink
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There are some good ads (e.g. the new Phil Collins gorilla ad) but I think the ads are remembered more than the product.
For instance, remember that brilliant ad where all the car parts moved in synch - now what car was that for? I don't remember.
It's worse on cable TV, ads every ten minutes (and it's no good changing channel coz they all show them at the same time, it's a conspiracy), but what really annoyed me was Lost (when I used to watch it before Sky disappeared from Virgin). It was only on for 4 minutes then they ran an ad break.


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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

For instance, remember that brilliant ad where all the car parts moved in synch - now what car was that for? I don't remember.  Honda (like I'm ever going to buy one...)
 
what really annoyed me was Lost (when I used to watch it before Sky disappeared from Virgin).  I occasionally watched 'Lost' until it disappeared from Channel 4...
 
It was only on for 4 minutes then they ran an ad break.  Yeah, I'd quite forgotten how much that used to annoy me, too...
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I'm more likely to stop buying a product if the ad's annoying than I am to buy a product if the ad's good.
 
I stopped drinking Irn Bru ("Iron Brew" - Scotland's other national drink) when they started using that bloody awful Manamana song. Non Scots may not realise how serious this is! 
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The one advert that annoys me more than any other, is the that Nationwide one with that guy who seems to be appearing in everything at the moment... he's got to be tight for work, if he's working with Robson Censoreding Greene!

You know the one... the one about Tracker Loans, or something.

ARGHHHHH!

Oh and the original Confused.com advert annoys me too, the new one isn't quite so in-your-face though.

I don't think I've seen Cheryl Baker in Coldseal (they're not Coldseal, I know that) adverts, I must have dozed off when they were on.
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...all those ads with ex-deputy chef constable John Stalker and his mangey mutt advertising everything from electric garage doors to double glazing & patio awnings. Angry

..Carol Vorderman AngryAngry
 
...Katy Hill's sparkly white teeth AngryAngryAngry
 
...Nadine Baggot and her flamming pentapeptides AngryAngryAngryAngry
 
...and Carol Vorderman again because you really can have too much Carol Effing Vorderman  AngryAngryAngryAngryAngry
 
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Nadine Baggot?  How on earth do you know her name?  I've never heard of her.

Is that ex-Blue Peter Katie Hill you speak of?

ARRGGHHH!
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Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Nadine Baggot?  How on earth do you know her name?  I've never heard of her.

Is that ex-Blue Peter Katie Hill you speak of?

ARRGGHHH!
Because she says her name at the beginning of every bloody ad and 'cos I live in a house where UK TV fr!gg!ng Gold is hardwired into the remote which my daughter hides so I can't change the channel I hear the damn thing a dozen times a day and the whole psuedo-science cr@p gets right up my nose!!!!!!!!!Angry
 
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This thread should be linked directly to the ranting room.
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

This thread should be linked directly to the ranting room.
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Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

This thread should be linked directly to the ranting room.
this thread is not Rant-Related but is Crossover-Rant and hence is a valid sub-genre of the Ranting Room Stern%20Smile

Hence the link between the two, therfore we can complain about adverts to our hearts content safe in the knowledg that its in the right place.
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Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

This thread should be linked directly to the ranting room.
this thread is not Rant-Related but is Crossover-Rant and hence is a valid sub-genre of the Ranting Room Stern%20Smile
 
although some of the Grey Room regulars are old enough to have been in at the development of Proto-Rant...Wink
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Some were even here before proto-ranting!

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