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[DCM]
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And yet another advert trying to use 'celebrities' to flog me something. This time, a Premiership Footballer and his Bint telling me about a Holiday Company.
Sorry ad execs, but I'm simply not dumb enough to not realise the reason a 'Celebrity' endorses any given product or service is because of it's excellence, but because absolute scads of cash have been chucked their way for five minutes work, and only a fool would say no. Do you really think that just because a certain chemical stench has David Beckham's name on it, I'm more inclined to procure it for myself? Do you really think that the razor favoured by a handful of sporting types makes a blind bit of difference to me, when I mostly shave having shuffled from my pit to the bathroom, bleary eyed, before desperately trying to shave without ripping my cheeks off? Can some has-been truly influence my choice of car insurance provider? No.
No no no. They actually achieve the opposite. If your advert annoys me sufficiently, I will avoid your product like the plague (ENOUGH WITH THE fething MEERKAT ALREADY. IT'S A PISS POOR JOKE YOU'VE SPUN OUT FOR A YEAR NOW).
And whilst we're at it, if you want to sell me a car, don't put giant women in it, because no matter how much they ponce around, no matter how little you have them wearing, I will still be wondering 'and what does that have to do with the car?' long after the advert has finished, to the point where I miss what you are advertising exactly in my haze of confusion. As for your film, I'll let my friends tell me if it's any good before seeing it, not some 'member of the public' who always give curiously one sided reviews for your latest still-born. Indeed, such adverts for your film make me wonder if they only people who will enjoy it are the same mouth breathers you thrust unwelcomed into my tellybox to tell me how inane and predictable the film is.
GRAAARRR!
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Yeah, so this is ultimately the reason to not watch regular tv, and just torrent all of your shows instead. That way, you can watch what you want, when you want to, without commercials.
I also avoid products that are accompanied by a really annoying commercial. Most advertising seems to be targeted at people who are actually too stupid to use the product properly. They can take their little cockney lizards and their bellowing pitchmen and their pop stars and stick 'em!!!
DR:80+S(GT)G++M++B-I++Pwmhd05#+D+++A+++/sWD-R++T(Ot)DM+ How is it they live in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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"The Eldar get no attention because the average male does not like confetti blasters, shimmer shields or sparkle lasers."
-Illeix
I do not actually own a television, and am not tempted to get one in the slightest. I am staying with family over Christmas and Sky can be nice once in a while, but I do not miss it, or terrestrial TV once I am back home. Don't miss it at all.
I certainly dont miss the advertising, reality TV shows, soap operas and licence fees. I can get all the entertainment I want from the internet, what I want when I want and with greatly improved quality control.
Frankly I wholeheartedly recommend not haing a TV, you will be suprised how many hours per week it saves for a better life.
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
If my wife didn't watch TV the only reason I would own one would be to watch movies. While I enjoy certain shows there is nothing I wouldn't give up quickly or easily.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
I'm all about stopping my patronage when a commercial offends me (usually on a intellectual level). The fact is if the adverts work, they will continue doing them. Most people just don't care, and that is actually a less stressful way of living I'm learning.
I got rid of the t.v. at my house because I got sick of the stuff being broadcast. Most of the people I see on the thing I'd go out of my way to avoid in real life so I didn't see the need to pay money to bring them into my living room for the kids to watch.
BrookM wrote:Even Discovery, my last great hope, has gone into a downward spiral.
seriously, they take something that is good (deadliest catch) and clone it ad nauseum. Then they dump all over quality insightful stuff with Ghost hunters and Ghost lab and Ghost douchebags.
Deadliest Catch was a great show. But then they had one about ICE ROAD TRUCKERS *honk honk* and loggers and some bald ex-SEAL who talks like Steven Seagal and hides his boner whenever he gets to touch a new gun.
The thing I hated about Discovery and History channel is that they seem to think you've forgotten what you've just seen before the commercial break and spend a couple minutes rehashing what was shown a few minutes before.
BrookM wrote:Deadliest Catch was a great show. But then they had one about ICE ROAD TRUCKERS *honk honk* and loggers and some bald ex-SEAL who talks like Steven Seagal and hides his boner whenever he gets to touch a new gun.
Whoa whoa whoa.
Back off Futureweapons, man! Seriously.
That's one of the few 'reality' shows I have no problems watching a full day of. Not sure how you got he talks like Steven Seagal, but yeah. He gets excited getting to use new tech.
Because remember, it wasn't just new guns. It was also new body armor, vehicles, bomb disposal tech, etc. Even non-lethals got their time in the sun.
BrookM wrote:Deadliest Catch was a great show. But then they had one about ICE ROAD TRUCKERS *honk honk* and loggers and some bald ex-SEAL who talks like Steven Seagal and hides his boner whenever he gets to touch a new gun.
Whoa whoa whoa. Back off Futureweapons, man! Seriously.
That's one of the few 'reality' shows I have no problems watching a full day of. Not sure how you got he talks like Steven Seagal, but yeah. He gets excited getting to use new tech.
Because remember, it wasn't just new guns. It was also new body armor, vehicles, bomb disposal tech, etc. Even non-lethals got their time in the sun.
All of which has to have his goo mopped off of it after they pry it out of hit techno-perv hands. If I were any of the people responsible for making that gear, I would have to object to that weirdo and his creepy ways. (Goo instead of what I typed? That's even nastier, way to go Dakka!!!)
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Some people just don't know Kan. Some people just don't know....
--The whole concept of government granted and government regulated 'permits' and the accompanying government mandate for government approved firearms 'training' prior to being blessed by government with the privilege to carry arms in a government approved and regulated manner, flies directly in the face of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
Shooting Gallery is a good one too on the Outdoor channel.
--The whole concept of government granted and government regulated 'permits' and the accompanying government mandate for government approved firearms 'training' prior to being blessed by government with the privilege to carry arms in a government approved and regulated manner, flies directly in the face of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
I use commercials to grab another beer or take a piss (or both).
--The whole concept of government granted and government regulated 'permits' and the accompanying government mandate for government approved firearms 'training' prior to being blessed by government with the privilege to carry arms in a government approved and regulated manner, flies directly in the face of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
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Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
Grab a piss and take a beer? Interesting tecnique!
I'm also getting thoroughly fed up of trailers for programmes that start showing weeks before the series does. Same with films. By the time the show rolls round, no matter how 'ooo' I found the first trailer, I feel like I've seen the bloody thing and am well and truly sick to death of it. Especially you Disney. Went to see a film, and I saw no less than 7(!) trailers and adverts for bloody Wall-E before the feature started. I'm quite aware of your current offerings, and beating me repeatedly over the head is not going to incline me to watch it!
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Watching sports games can be a pain too due to timeout breaks which results in more of the same commercials being broadcasted over and over.
This is where having the PC hooked up to the TV comes in handy; just switch the video mode and I'll be surfing the web for whats happening in the rest of the sports league until the game resumes
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Well, it seems that advertisors have not learned from the recession. If you noticed that right after the economy tanked everything was value, savings and thrift. Now that there is a glimmer of life coming back, things are now becoming "hand crafted", "artisan", etc just as they were right before the downturn.
The best ones are the coffee commericals where, "our coffee is individually hand crafted by our trained staff for peak flavor" or some stupid bull like that. Come on guys, does anybody believe that the minimum wage worker at that fast food chain gives a two s about your flavored coffee. If it wasn't scalding hot he would most likely stir it with an unwashed, salty appendage.
Well, to be fair to the advertising community I have found that a good precentage of humans are like lemmings espcially in times of hardship. Look at all the PSA's of the 1930's to the 1950's with people that hold titles that sound like they should have some power over something somewhere so you need to listen and take heed message.
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like that. Come on guys, does anybody believe that the minimum wage worker at that fast food chain gives a two 
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