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Old 01-10-2014, 12:50
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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 whole QR code thing reminded me of Ubisoft's interactive campaign for the launch of the Watchdogs video game, in which with very little detail they were able to gather a lot of your facebook details and build up a report on you.

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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Old 01-10-2014, 15:08
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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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Old 01-10-2014, 15:36
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I love the stuff he comes up with, especially the Powerball Smartie one.
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Old 01-10-2014, 17:18
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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
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 checked it and then thought he must have been in on it when it went to the obviously fake ad page.
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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Old 01-10-2014, 20:04
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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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Old 01-10-2014, 21:24
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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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Old 01-10-2014, 21:30
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Sorry if I'm repeating a previous comment - though I doubt it - Dave Gorman is the unfunniest Man on tele!
That Jihady John is a laugh a minute. 😄
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Old 01-10-2014, 21:31
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I was chuckling aloud at several points last night
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Old 01-10-2014, 21:35
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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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Old 01-10-2014, 23:55
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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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Old 02-10-2014, 09:49
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I imagine I'm not the only one who went and checked out those websites? Loved this episode.
Only the cat one - I am a mad cat person after all

And, indeed, she is A most excellent cat
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Old 02-10-2014, 11:06
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I thought this was hysterical...sadly I very nearly fell for it
Me too I thought that was hilarious
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Old 02-10-2014, 19:11
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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.
Comedians make up jokes
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Old 02-10-2014, 19:25
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Comedians make up jokes
yes make up jokes about real life, not jokes about something they created

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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Old 02-10-2014, 19:40
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Do you think all comedy is observational?
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Old 02-10-2014, 20:01
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Do you think all comedy is observational?
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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Old 02-10-2014, 21:12
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Old 02-10-2014, 21:17
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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?
I'd suspect you'd be in the minority.
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Old 02-10-2014, 21:19
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I'd suspect you'd be in the minority.
ok well thats how I feel, never been one to care if im in the majority or not.
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Old 04-10-2014, 23:05
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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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Old 04-10-2014, 23:18
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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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Old 04-10-2014, 23:23
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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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Old 04-10-2014, 23:24
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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.
Were you also disappointed that the powerball wasnt really a smartie as well?
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Old 07-10-2014, 23:04
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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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Old 08-10-2014, 10:06
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I only discovered this show by accident a few weeks ago, now I love it!
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