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Very good show last night I thought, one of my favourites
Whole thing was basically a wind up though! I was thinking the QR code could have somehow read some data of your sim card in order to display your house from Google Maps, seemed possible to me The details of the whole campaign are quite well documented in this article:- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5191237.html |
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I paused the TV and checked the QR code before he explained it and got a bit worried about the lawnmower sale. I got even more jittery when the code came up with the girl's house when I carried on watching the episode. I was like WTF? I didn't get mine or anyone's house!! I got charged for a lawnmower!!
It was only when I did the "click here" thing and got "charged" for a second mower that I started laughing, then thankfully Dave explained it. Bloody sod. |
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I love the stuff he comes up with, especially the Powerball Smartie one.
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Very good show last night I thought, one of my favourites
Whole thing was basically a wind up though! I was thinking the QR code could have somehow read some data of your sim card in order to display your house from Google Maps, seemed possible to me Quote:
I paused the TV and checked the QR code before he explained it and got a bit worried about the lawnmower sale. I got even more jittery when the code came up with the girl's house when I carried on watching the episode. I was like WTF? I didn't get mine or anyone's house!! I got charged for a lawnmower!!
It was only when I did the "click here" thing and got "charged" for a second mower that I started laughing, then thankfully Dave explained it. Bloody sod. I didn't go through the next bit to get my 99p cookies ![]() I was thinking though that it is possible. On my phone i've turned off the geolocation and other location apps and also don't have facebook but I could imagine some people having all their personal details inputted into sites or apps and a QR code could possibly take that info and redirect to personal info/pics etc. |
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Given the number of years Dave will be repeating the programme it'll cost a fortune to keep the lawn mower website going..
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Sorry if I'm repeating a previous comment - though I doubt it - Dave Gorman is the unfunniest Man on tele!
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Sorry if I'm repeating a previous comment - though I doubt it - Dave Gorman is the unfunniest Man on tele!
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I was chuckling aloud at several points last night
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I love the stuff he comes up with, especially the Powerball Smartie one.
I thought this was hysterical...sadly I very nearly fell for it
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got to say im a little lost with this episode, all the jokes are ones he made up.
The QR code he invinted, but yeah its not beyond the realms of possiblity, the average smart phone will contain your address somewhere, and you can then put that address in google maps, and bamm pictures of your house. More to the point, Dave (Gorman not the channel) spends the entire last segment laughing at the websites he himself made up, that isnt really comedy in my book. |
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I imagine I'm not the only one who went and checked out those websites? Loved this episode.
![]() ![]() And, indeed, she is A most excellent cat
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I thought this was hysterical...sadly I very nearly fell for it
![]() ![]() I thought that was hilarious
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got to say im a little lost with this episode, all the jokes are ones he made up.
More to the point, Dave (Gorman not the channel) spends the entire last segment laughing at the websites he himself made up, that isnt really comedy in my book. |
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Comedians make up jokes
Its a bit like someone complaining that there are always cars coming against them at traffic lights, but at the end of complaining about it, them saying that they ignore the traffic lights and go on red all the time. |
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Do you think all comedy is observational?
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Do you think all comedy is observational?
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Neil Sean's said he has had homophobic abuse DM'd to him, despite the 32 people he follows are only his friends, gay rights accounts, his employers and Joan Rivers
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so I was the only one who felt cheated, when he told us, it was him who made up the websites? & the QR code thing was a fake?
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I'd suspect you'd be in the minority.
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I was a bit disappointed that the QR code wasn't real. I was hoping that it would be genuine and the comedy would come from a rant from Dave about the invasion of privacy (or something like that) of the company doing it.
When the woman saw her house, I imagined an estate agent being behind it and after seeing your house, you'd be redirected to images of houses that might be of interest. |
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The found poem this week actually made a good point. With a Google car, how will you swerve to avoid a collision?
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I thought the QR thing was genius, I fell for it till the second lawnmower,. Both my wife and I were laughing out loud throughout. Looking forward to seeing him live next month. Hopefully it's not just material seen on this series though.
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I was a bit disappointed that the QR code wasn't real. I was hoping that it would be genuine and the comedy would come from a rant from Dave about the invasion of privacy (or something like that) of the company doing it.
When the woman saw her house, I imagined an estate agent being behind it and after seeing your house, you'd be redirected to images of houses that might be of interest.
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Good episode tonight
Think he missed a trick by not calling himself 'Capuccino Two Sugars' in the Metro section Though it does make me wonder if I should try the Rush Hour Crush thing just to see what would happen (I dont travel into London very often)
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I only discovered this show by accident a few weeks ago, now I love it!
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Think he missed a trick by not calling himself 'Capuccino Two Sugars' in the Metro section