Moron tv
Apr 1st 2013, 10:55 am
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Moron tv
It's getting worse, isn't it?
And what's more... I think we're supposed to relate to it. And what's even worse, a lot of people must be relating to it because they're selling on its back and they wouldn't do that unless it worked.
Moron tv.
I'll tell you something I hate right now... the new Coles ad. To me, it looks like they've got a woman acting like a hyperactive simpleton ... and I'm afraid I'm supposed to find her so inspiring that I will spend all my grocery money to be like her.
Then there's Honey fricking boo boo... Georgie fricking shore... the Kardashians... current affairs stories about bras and bogans... presenters incapable of enunciation... back to back american sitcoms...
I know it's not just me.
Rise up British Expats and declare what ticks you off about moron tv?
And what's more... I think we're supposed to relate to it. And what's even worse, a lot of people must be relating to it because they're selling on its back and they wouldn't do that unless it worked.
Moron tv.
I'll tell you something I hate right now... the new Coles ad. To me, it looks like they've got a woman acting like a hyperactive simpleton ... and I'm afraid I'm supposed to find her so inspiring that I will spend all my grocery money to be like her.
Then there's Honey fricking boo boo... Georgie fricking shore... the Kardashians... current affairs stories about bras and bogans... presenters incapable of enunciation... back to back american sitcoms...
I know it's not just me.
Rise up British Expats and declare what ticks you off about moron tv?
Apr 1st 2013, 10:58 am
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Re: Moron tv
It's getting worse, isn't it?
And what's more... I think we're supposed to relate to it. And what's even worse, a lot of people must be relating to it because they're selling on its back and they wouldn't do that unless it worked.
Moron tv.
I'll tell you something I hate right now... the new Coles ad. To me, it looks like they've got a woman acting like a hyperactive simpleton ... and I'm afraid I'm supposed to find her so inspiring that I will spend all my grocery money to be like her.
Then there's Honey fricking boo boo... Georgie fricking shore... the Kardashians... current affairs stories about bras and bogans... presenters incapable of enunciation... back to back american sitcoms...
I know it's not just me.
Rise up British Expats and declare what ticks you off about moron tv?
And what's more... I think we're supposed to relate to it. And what's even worse, a lot of people must be relating to it because they're selling on its back and they wouldn't do that unless it worked.
Moron tv.
I'll tell you something I hate right now... the new Coles ad. To me, it looks like they've got a woman acting like a hyperactive simpleton ... and I'm afraid I'm supposed to find her so inspiring that I will spend all my grocery money to be like her.
Then there's Honey fricking boo boo... Georgie fricking shore... the Kardashians... current affairs stories about bras and bogans... presenters incapable of enunciation... back to back american sitcoms...
I know it's not just me.
Rise up British Expats and declare what ticks you off about moron tv?
Apr 1st 2013, 11:02 am
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Re: Moron tv
It's getting worse, isn't it?
And what's more... I think we're supposed to relate to it. And what's even worse, a lot of people must be relating to it because they're selling on its back and they wouldn't do that unless it worked.
Moron tv.
I'll tell you something I hate right now... the new Coles ad. To me, it looks like they've got a woman acting like a hyperactive simpleton ... and I'm afraid I'm supposed to find her so inspiring that I will spend all my grocery money to be like her.
Then there's Honey fricking boo boo... Georgie fricking shore... the Kardashians... current affairs stories about bras and bogans... presenters incapable of enunciation... back to back american sitcoms...
I know it's not just me.
Rise up British Expats and declare what ticks you off about moron tv?
And what's more... I think we're supposed to relate to it. And what's even worse, a lot of people must be relating to it because they're selling on its back and they wouldn't do that unless it worked.
Moron tv.
I'll tell you something I hate right now... the new Coles ad. To me, it looks like they've got a woman acting like a hyperactive simpleton ... and I'm afraid I'm supposed to find her so inspiring that I will spend all my grocery money to be like her.
Then there's Honey fricking boo boo... Georgie fricking shore... the Kardashians... current affairs stories about bras and bogans... presenters incapable of enunciation... back to back american sitcoms...
I know it's not just me.
Rise up British Expats and declare what ticks you off about moron tv?
Apr 1st 2013, 12:01 pm
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Apr 1st 2013, 12:16 pm
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Re: Moron tv
I never turn on any commercial channel so have no idea what the latest bad ads are. I've never seen any program featuring these Kardashians or watched Jersey Shore.
I have a vague memory of Current Tonight being TV for bogans when I last caught sight of it 20 odd years ago - it's clearly just the same.
I stick to the ABC, SBS and the odd Foxtel channel and consequently never get upset by anything on TV. It's easy.
I have a vague memory of Current Tonight being TV for bogans when I last caught sight of it 20 odd years ago - it's clearly just the same.
I stick to the ABC, SBS and the odd Foxtel channel and consequently never get upset by anything on TV. It's easy.
Apr 1st 2013, 12:20 pm
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Re: Moron tv
Read a book
Go on the internet
Build an electronic circuit
Play Chess
Make an Airfix kit
Have some sex
Drink a bottle of wine
Do some sit ups
Go for a swim
Knit a scarf
Study
etc
Not necessarily in that order
Go on the internet
Build an electronic circuit
Play Chess
Make an Airfix kit
Have some sex
Drink a bottle of wine
Do some sit ups
Go for a swim
Knit a scarf
Study
etc
Not necessarily in that order
Apr 1st 2013, 12:40 pm
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Re: Moron tv
Apr 1st 2013, 12:41 pm
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Apr 1st 2013, 12:44 pm
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Apr 1st 2013, 12:47 pm
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Apr 1st 2013, 12:49 pm
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Re: Moron tv
EVERYTHING I have given up watching the moron's. At one stage I felt like I was living in Americia most of everything we watched was from Americia.
Oh I could go on,but as I said I now read a good book,or tease the Grand kids
Oh I could go on,but as I said I now read a good book,or tease the Grand kids
Apr 1st 2013, 7:39 pm
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Re: Moron tv
I watch UK TV - and pick and choose from the Foxtel offerings. Hooray for Game of Thrones and Doctor Who!!
I like the History Channel too.
Boo for anything involving Kardashians, Essex/Jersey/Geordie stuff or "real" housewives - about as real as a Barbie Doll is human.
I like the History Channel too.Boo for anything involving Kardashians, Essex/Jersey/Geordie stuff or "real" housewives - about as real as a Barbie Doll is human.
Apr 1st 2013, 8:38 pm
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Re: Moron tv
But... but... Fox Classics is repeating every episode of Murder, She Wrote -from the beginning!
How can you not be excited about that?
I hold my hands up, I watch (and enjoy) all sorts of total crap on the telly. I thought I had no lower limit.
But even I won't watch anything with the Kardashians in, any sort of scripted reality show (but I love other reality shows, the trashier the better), Jeremy Kyle or anything that could possibly be called Honey fricking Boo Boo (or whatever it is)
I also try to record anything I'm likely to watch so I hardly ever see adverts. I've only just inadvertently realised the whole 'twist' with the meerkat ads.
If you think something is unwatchable dirge then seriously, why would you try to watch it? Like 'Zulu says, why don't you just switch off your tv and go do something less boring instead? (The irony!)
How can you not be excited about that?
I hold my hands up, I watch (and enjoy) all sorts of total crap on the telly. I thought I had no lower limit.
But even I won't watch anything with the Kardashians in, any sort of scripted reality show (but I love other reality shows, the trashier the better), Jeremy Kyle or anything that could possibly be called Honey fricking Boo Boo (or whatever it is)
I also try to record anything I'm likely to watch so I hardly ever see adverts. I've only just inadvertently realised the whole 'twist' with the meerkat ads.
If you think something is unwatchable dirge then seriously, why would you try to watch it? Like 'Zulu says, why don't you just switch off your tv and go do something less boring instead? (The irony!)
Apr 1st 2013, 8:42 pm
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Re: Moron tv
I also try to record anything I'm likely to watch so I hardly ever see adverts. I've only just inadvertently realised the whole 'twist' with the meerkat ads.
If you think something is unwatchable dirge then seriously, why would you try to watch it? Like 'Zulu says, why don't you just switch off your tv and go do something less boring instead? (The irony!)
If you think something is unwatchable dirge then seriously, why would you try to watch it? Like 'Zulu says, why don't you just switch off your tv and go do something less boring instead? (The irony!)
I don't watch ads either unless forced to- especially with all those funeral insurance ones which are on in the daytime- but I quite like the meerkat ones. (I like meerkats!)
Apr 1st 2013, 9:42 pm
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Re: Moron tv
Watched Foxtel over the long weekend at relatives place, they are paying over 100 bucks a month, yet it has around 20 commercials a hour. What a rip off.
Coles ads are beyond belief, so so bad. Many ads here treat the consumer as dumb, stupid and are many are sexist, the man is macho, the woman is little kitchen duty woman, OMG.
Have to laugh at the ads selling american stuff
, the ad is identical to the american version but the super stickhy dust busting wallet/wand is $60 not five dolllars.
Oh and funeral ads, the nauseating or smarmy couples
so bad. Or sports stars endorsing everything, why would I buy it because johnny ****zit is being paid hundreds of thousand to say he likes it??
And the lifestyle ads, every ad portraying a great lifestyle involves a sausage sizzle or a person standing on a pier with a pelican. SO SO boring.
Coles ads are beyond belief, so so bad. Many ads here treat the consumer as dumb, stupid and are many are sexist, the man is macho, the woman is little kitchen duty woman, OMG.
Have to laugh at the ads selling american stuff
, the ad is identical to the american version but the super stickhy dust busting wallet/wand is $60 not five dolllars. Oh and funeral ads, the nauseating or smarmy couples
so bad. Or sports stars endorsing everything, why would I buy it because johnny ****zit is being paid hundreds of thousand to say he likes it?? And the lifestyle ads, every ad portraying a great lifestyle involves a sausage sizzle or a person standing on a pier with a pelican. SO SO boring.