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Blacksword 
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Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
 Posted: September 13 2007 at 08:15 |
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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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Peter
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 08:28 |
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You know, Porksword
 , I tried to "put the kettle on" during an ad once, but I just couldn't get it over my head. 
What would you suggest?
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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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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 08:44 |
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have you tried drawing the curtains or perhaps running a bath?
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 09:27 |
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 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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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 19327 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 09:48 |
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although good news might hopefully be at hand...
I heard on Radio 4 this morning that the Financal services industry will be forced to tighten up their lending policies...
 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...
 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...
 (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...)...
 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...
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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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Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 19327 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 09:50 |
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Oh come on, Peter...your adverts simply can't be as uniformly inane as ours....
(oh hang on a minute...you live in North America, don't you...
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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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Raff
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 09:56 |
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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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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 19327 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:20 |
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^^^ you're far too intelligent to be watching adverts, Raff... didn't you know they erode your brain through osmosis???
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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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chopper
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20030 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 10:56 |
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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. Edited by chopper - September 13 2007 at 10:59 |
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 19327 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 11:14 |
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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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A B Negative
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Joined: May 02 2006 Location: Methil Republic Status: Offline Points: 1594 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 11:28 |
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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 disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 12:44 |
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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
ing 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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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 13:41 |
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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. ..Carol Vorderman
 ...Katy Hill's sparkly white teeth
...and Carol Vorderman again because you really can have too much Carol Effing Vorderman
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 13:55 |
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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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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 14:01 |
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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!!!!!!!!!
ah-hum.
Yes, that Katy Hill
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sleeper
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Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 16:37 |
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This thread should be linked directly to the ranting room.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 16:45 |
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this thread is not Rant-Related but is Crossover-Rant and hence is a valid sub-genre of the Ranting Room
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sleeper
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Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 17:00 |
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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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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 19327 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 17:10 |
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although some of the Grey Room regulars are old enough to have been in at the development of Proto-Rant...
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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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Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
Posted: September 13 2007 at 17:45 |
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Some were even here before proto-ranting!
That was of course, in the days when heiroglyths were written on cave walls. |
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