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The use of the words "Two times"
I have just watched an advert for Solpadeine Soluble tablets which work "Two times as fast" as non soluble tablets. What's wrong with saying "TWICE AS FAST" ?? |
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#1152 |
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Per calendar month
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#1153 |
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The fashion for having every programme begin with 5 minutes of 'catchup'.
The Great Interior Design Show has taken this to new levels of idiocy by having first the catchup, THEN a preview of the programme you're about to watch! So you know that someone's going to paint a room dark blue before the thing's even started ![]() ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc |
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#1154 |
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The new way that news items filmed on cameras are then shown as one third visible in the middle of screen with the two outer thirds being greyed out. Use the whole screen!!
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The adverts seem to be getting longer. By the time the programme comes back on I have forgotten what I am watching"
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#1156 |
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I can't NOT say it any more.
There's just so much c**p on tv these days |
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The way Janine Machin on Look East introduces each news story with "next". Presumably she thinks we think it'll be related to the previous story, even if they're completely different.
The person who fills in for her when she's unavailable doesn't do that. |
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Per calendar month
![]() I believe state pensions are paid every 4 weeks and not per calendar month, so you can get 13 months worth in a year. I haven't got there yet but DH has! I always laugh when estate agents say 'can achieve'. |
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Deleted as repeated.
Last edited by Ess_Bee : 15-02-2016 at 20:42. Reason: deleted |
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The adverts seem to be getting longer. By the time the programme comes back on I have forgotten what I am watching"
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The new way that news items filmed on cameras are then shown as one third visible in the middle of screen with the two outer thirds being greyed out. Use the whole screen!!
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Join Date: May 2011
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The new way that news items filmed on cameras are then shown as one third visible in the middle of screen with the two outer thirds being greyed out. Use the whole screen!!
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Maybe its not so trivial but the insistence of "next week" on (insert drama here) trailers at the end of this weeks episode.
Look, if we are still watching by the time the screen goes black chances are we'll be tuning in again! |
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The use of the words "Two times"
I have just watched an advert for Solpadeine Soluble tablets which work "Two times as fast" as non soluble tablets. What's wrong with saying "TWICE AS FAST" ?? |
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The gradually increasing amount of people on TV who don't say there Ts in certain words and just sound common
Example - ''communi'y'', ''par'y'', ''socie'y'' |
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Maybe its not so trivial but the insistence of "next week" on (insert drama here) trailers at the end of this weeks episode.
Look, if we are still watching by the time the screen goes black chances are we'll be tuning in again! |
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recapping after an advert on what's happened before the advert......does my head in.
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recapping after an advert on what's happened before the advert......does my head in.
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The Sensodyne Toothpaste ad - if he says the words 'sensitive' and 'sensitivity' once he says them a dozen times. How can teeth be sensitive? They're made of bone? It's the nerve inside them which can be subject to pain. Smug b*stard.
Also, 'sensitive bladder' ad. Leaky bladders are not sensitive, they leak. End of. |
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Has anyone posted Mitchell & Webb's "Gift Shop" sketch on this thread yet?
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#1172 |
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Oh, yes, and ..... am I the only one who finds that awful two note sound on Law & Order UK really eerie? I hate it!! ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Oh yes! I don't find it eerie though, just extremely annoying. I hate it so much so that I've stopped watching it
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#1174 |
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Theres an announcer on C4 that I hate as well.
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#1175 |
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ADVERTS!
Perhaps I'm just more sensitive than most people but I really seriously hate them.
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Perhaps I'm just more sensitive than most people but I really seriously hate them.