My first whinge!
Jan 9th 2009 | 9:44 am
#17
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From: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Re: My first whinge!
and what about,
" If you order by credit card within the next 30 minutes you will get over $2,000,000,000,000,000 value free"
But wait,
"Also order now and we will throw in and extra one absolutely free"
so thats two for the price of one and $4,000,000,000,000,000 in extra value all for three payments of $69.95.
And if you do not like it, just send it back within 30 day's for a full refund, minus the $59.95 postage.
" If you order by credit card within the next 30 minutes you will get over $2,000,000,000,000,000 value free"
But wait,
"Also order now and we will throw in and extra one absolutely free"
so thats two for the price of one and $4,000,000,000,000,000 in extra value all for three payments of $69.95.
And if you do not like it, just send it back within 30 day's for a full refund, minus the $59.95 postage.
Hardly Normal!
My whinge is having to type in com.au rather than co.uk.
Jan 9th 2009 | 9:47 am
#18
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Posts: 9,400
Re: My first whinge!
I use the ads to flick around and see what's on elsewhere.
What really gets up my nose is the infantile, loud pulsating artificial "music" that is in the background when Sky presenters read the headlines - it is so obtrusive it makes most of the speech unintelligible. The BBC is just as bad - and they add to it by hiring the correct quota of ethnic minorities whose delivery can be unfathomable anyway.
Oh for the days of Michael Buerk, Michael Aspel and the rest...............
What really gets up my nose is the infantile, loud pulsating artificial "music" that is in the background when Sky presenters read the headlines - it is so obtrusive it makes most of the speech unintelligible. The BBC is just as bad - and they add to it by hiring the correct quota of ethnic minorities whose delivery can be unfathomable anyway.
Oh for the days of Michael Buerk, Michael Aspel and the rest...............
Jan 9th 2009 | 9:55 am
#19
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From: Sydney, previously Northern Ireland
Re: My first whinge!
I call it the Cillit-Bang effect. That's the first commercial in the UK I noticed employed the supremely irritating convention of SHOUTING the whole way through the advertisement.
Jan 9th 2009 | 10:24 am
#20
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From: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Re: My first whinge!
I use the ads to flick around and see what's on elsewhere.
What really gets up my nose is the infantile, loud pulsating artificial "music" that is in the background when Sky presenters read the headlines - it is so obtrusive it makes most of the speech unintelligible. The BBC is just as bad - and they add to it by hiring the correct quota of ethnic minorities whose delivery can be unfathomable anyway.
Oh for the days of Michael Buerk, Michael Aspel and the rest...............
What really gets up my nose is the infantile, loud pulsating artificial "music" that is in the background when Sky presenters read the headlines - it is so obtrusive it makes most of the speech unintelligible. The BBC is just as bad - and they add to it by hiring the correct quota of ethnic minorities whose delivery can be unfathomable anyway.
Oh for the days of Michael Buerk, Michael Aspel and the rest...............
Jan 9th 2009 | 12:49 pm
#21
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Posts: 65,493
Re: My first whinge!
I zone ads out majority of the time but the only thing that pisses me off, and did just as much in the UK is every commercial station has their ads at the same time so an ad comes on and you have a wander just to find ads everywhere else as well :curse:
Jan 9th 2009 | 1:28 pm
#22
pink 'n' bouncy
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 6,087
From: Zombie nation
Re: My first whinge!
Nearly every advert tries to mention 'Australia' as many times as possible in their adverts .....does my nut in :curse:
Jan 9th 2009 | 2:55 pm
#24
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From: South Australia
Re: My first whinge!
They just don't get it do they!!!
Jan 9th 2009 | 6:30 pm
#25
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Jan 10th 2009 | 10:08 pm
#27
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From: Renfrewshire Scotland
Re: My first whinge!
BANG AND THE DIRT IS GONE!!
Give me a hand gun and BANG he would be gone.
My wife friend was in our house and when the cillit bang advert came on she said " what a daft name for a product "CLIT BANG"
I fell about the floor laughing and my DW explained the real name. 
Give me a hand gun and BANG he would be gone.
My wife friend was in our house and when the cillit bang advert came on she said " what a daft name for a product "CLIT BANG"
I fell about the floor laughing and my DW explained the real name.
Jan 11th 2009 | 12:16 am
#29
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Re: My first whinge!
Our rugs a million guy at the moment is really scary. He's looking deadly serious, sitting at a desk and talking really slow and quiet - his overload of stock this time is totally down to the global financial crisis apparently
Jan 11th 2009 | 1:46 am
#30
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Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Harpenden
Re: My first whinge!
Does WA Salvage still advertise in Western Australia?
"We not fancy, but we cheap!"
"We not fancy, but we cheap!"
