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Old 25-11-2016, 14:28
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But its showing how the food can shut the boring bloke up apparently
Food that nobody else is eating or have they catered for lots more but they've not turned up knowing what they are like from previous adverts
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Old 25-11-2016, 14:34
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Is Groupon about getting rid of old technology as their advert shows two women fighting over the smallest fattest HDTV I've ever seen
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Old 25-11-2016, 20:45
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The one from the NHS is already getting on my tits - " are you 65 ? have a little cough ? it could get serious( sotto voce ) " - it could be worse thou they might off asked michael parkinson to front it ! on a unrelated note i heard on the radio he has put a book out about Ali - can the man stoop any lower to milk his tenuous connection ?
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Old 26-11-2016, 04:38
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Every year at Christmas we get albums from Cliff Richard, bloody Daniel O'Donnell and other abominations like the ones you mentioned. There is also another awful-sounding album of classics out by Bill Turnbull as well to compound the misery. I mean, does anyone actually really want to listen to this depressing stuff at Christmas, of all times? And to think, it is supposed to be the "season to be jolly"! I am surprised that we haven't had the latest effort from bloody Foster And Allen to torment us again yet. As you say, I think music like this fits squarely into the "what shall we buy grandma this year" category.

Albums strictly for the over-60s and every year we get more like this. Though, to be honest, I doubt even my own mother would enjoy this sort of crap and she is over 70!!
Well I'm over 60 and my kids wouldn't dream of giving me that sort of crud! My wish list contains albums by W.A.S.P., Magnum and AC/DC to name but a few. Stop thevstereotyping please. Your mum sounds great btw
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Old 26-11-2016, 05:10
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Currently, anything without James Corden in is a Godsend, much need relief!

My God, the worst thing about that Sainsbury's advert is you KNOW that the smug little prick really does fancy the idea of cloning himself .

Here's a dilemma, if there was a fire, and James Corden and Rylan were inside, and you HAD to save one, which one would it be? Stuff like that really keeps me up an night worrying
Id save myself the trouble of saving either one of these class one *****.

And the current ASDA advert boils my piss.
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Old 26-11-2016, 09:16
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Just seen the new Toys R Us ad with a choir singing the theme tune! WHY?!!
Indeed. Bring back Geoffrey the giraffe and the ultimate misheard lyric "millions of Geoffreys all under one roof" :
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Old 26-11-2016, 11:49
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Indeed. Bring back Geoffrey the giraffe and the ultimate misheard lyric "millions of Geoffreys all under one roof" :
That wasn't the actual lyrics!
What we're they really singing?
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Old 26-11-2016, 12:16
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Before you buy the Bradley Walsh album, think about how many times you'll play it after Xmas Day, ie. none.

I'm enjoying the Hugh Dennis voice overs for the Currys ads.
Its like everything he says is in inverted commas, and he's thinking "Really?"
I love how everyone knows what scammers Dixons were with the 'extended warranties' that weren't worth a light, and so they quietly hide their main name and make Currys the more dominant one. I'd never shop there again.

Indeed. Bring back Geoffrey the giraffe and the ultimate misheard lyric "millions of Geoffreys all under one roof" :
That wasn't the actual lyrics!
What we're they really singing?
"There's millions", said Geoffrey, "All under one roof"

I've always known that.
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Old 26-11-2016, 13:51
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Another classic gone now, with 'more than a bargaaaaainnn' and an eye-stabbing close-up of the B&M shop front, clearly from a student of the Cillit Bang school of design which I believe in turn had its roots in the original Radion college before that was closed due to excessive cruelty to fluorescents.
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Old 26-11-2016, 15:19
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I really hate this years M&S christmas ad.

Is it just me, but shouldn't Father Christams and his wife be old, kindly people. Somehow M&S seem to think that Father Christmas should be some doddery old geezer who is married to a 45 year old 'MILF' type. Just wrong in every single way.

I love how everyone knows what scammers Dixons were with the 'extended warranties' that weren't worth a light, and so they quietly hide their main name and make Currys the more dominant one. I'd never shop there again.
All these extended waranty schemes were option extras and almost everywhere offered them, hell even Amazon offer 'product protection' for certain electrical products.

So why was Dixons worst that Currys/Comet/Amazon/PC World/Tandy ect, unless I'm missing something like the insurance company Dixons used went into administration?
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Old 26-11-2016, 17:48
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House of Fraser. Doing their best to surpass last year's dire offering.
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Old 26-11-2016, 19:07
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That wasn't the actual lyrics!
What we're they really singing?
I always thought it was " 'There's milions', says Geoffrey 'all under one roof' "
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Old 26-11-2016, 20:31
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All these extended waranty schemes were option extras and almost everywhere offered them, hell even Amazon offer 'product protection' for certain electrical products.

So why was Dixons worst that Currys/Comet/Amazon/PC World/Tandy ect, unless I'm missing something like the insurance company Dixons used went into administration?
Before internet shopping, Dixons (who incorporate Currys, PC World and The Link) were one of the heaviest sellers of extended warranties. One guy later summed it up online when he had to tell the employee not to mention it again or he'd just walk out. It was mentioned again and he walked out without having bought anything. Sale lost.

I always thought it was " 'There's milions', says Geoffrey 'all under one roof' "
Why confused? I confirmed a few posts up that's it, and it makes sense.
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Old 26-11-2016, 21:26
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Not sure whether I'm impressed with the 'Evolution of Stunts' advert.

I forgot what they were selling.
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Old 27-11-2016, 01:32
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Not sure of the company ...
This is what none of the brain-dead coke-addicts that infest Ad-world don't realise; it may be "memorably annoying", but the one thing we don't actually remember is the name of the thing they're advertising.
"The dancing meerkats that burst into flame while singing in twee voices and then James Corden walks in? Yeah, it's, ah, you know, that, er, insurance company".
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Old 27-11-2016, 01:36
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Albums strictly for the over-60s and every year we get more like this.
Our generation invented taking drugs and having loads of guilt-free sex. Think again, ad-tw4t twenty-somethings.
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Old 27-11-2016, 01:49
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Why confused? I confirmed a few posts up that's it, and it makes sense.
I know, its just that I was replying to lainey and Sadlyallseein with my post who asked what they really singing
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Old 27-11-2016, 02:47
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House of Fraser. Doing their best to surpass last year's dire offering.
I thought it was last years offering, are HoF in trouble because thats exactly what I'm taking from the rehashed Crimbo advert.

As for Mrs Claws at M&S she is no milf just very old mutton tarted up to look like scraggy lamb.
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Old 27-11-2016, 09:39
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Those truly awful GAME ads with James Buckley (Inbetweeners, Jay)
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Old 27-11-2016, 09:43
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I know the Amazon Echo has been mentioned on here before, but even with the Black Friday sale knocking it down from £150 to £120, I still thought... but, if I so desired, I could talk to my smartphone for free(!)
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Old 27-11-2016, 11:47
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Before internet shopping, Dixons (who incorporate Currys, PC World and The Link) were one of the heaviest sellers of extended warranties. One guy later summed it up online when he had to tell the employee not to mention it again or he'd just walk out. It was mentioned again and he walked out without having bought anything. Sale lost.
I've done similar twice myself, once with PC world, once with Comet. Both times I said "look, if you try to sell me the warranty one more time I am not going to bother, both times they did it anyway, then looked surprised when I got up and walked out
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Old 27-11-2016, 16:46
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Indeed. Bring back Geoffrey the giraffe and the ultimate misheard lyric "millions of Geoffreys all under one roof" :
Yep, that is what I always thought they said
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Old 27-11-2016, 19:18
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I thought it was last years offering, are HoF in trouble because thats exactly what I'm taking from the rehashed Crimbo advert.

As for Mrs Claws at M&S she is no milf just very old mutton tarted up to look like scraggy lamb
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So rude! Yet it made me LOL!

I hate that shitty ad too!

Every year at Christmas we get albums from Cliff Richard, bloody Daniel O'Donnell and other abominations like the ones you mentioned. As you say, I think music like this fits squarely into the "what shall we buy grandma this year" category.

Albums strictly for the over-60s and every year we get more like this. Though, to be honest, I doubt even my own mother would enjoy this sort of crap and she is over 70!!
Hear hear to this lot. I have several family members over 60, who like Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Ed Sheeran, Paramore, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Avril Lavigne. If someone bought them the album by the ghastly Alexander Armstrong, or Daniel O'Donnell, they would use it as a coaster.

Currently, anything without James Corden in is a Godsend, much need relief!

My God, the worst thing about that Sainsbury's advert is you KNOW that the smug little prick really does fancy the idea of cloning himself .

Here's a dilemma, if there was a fire, and James Corden and Rylan were inside, and you HAD to save one, which one would it be? Stuff like that really keeps me up all night worrying
LOL, I think I am the only one on DS who likes Rylan. Corden is OK but I hate the stupid insurance company ad he is on.

Yes and that annoying grin Goodman has

Very false man....
I liked him until the Will Young incident. Now I think he is a git.

I thought the Heinz advert had been taken off because it was shit. It was so people don't slit their wrists on sharp edges then.

I hated the Sainsbury's advert with its politically correct stop motion characters before I knew it was James Corden. Talks of it being the Christmas no.1. Please anything, even an X-Factor song.
I hate this too.

As for the PC comment; I agree. I can't help but notice that almost EVERY SINGLE ADVERT has black or mixed race people in it. Despite the fact that roughly 90% of the UK is white.

Obviously to appease the PC brigage.

Every sodding advert about Black Friday! Get this American shite out of Britain!
Agree! Hate Black Friday! Even some of the shops abstained LOL.

ROLL UP ROLL UP! Loads of crap tellies worth nowt, for a fiver less than they are the rest of the year!
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Old 27-11-2016, 19:30
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I really hate this years M&S christmas ad.

Is it just me, but shouldn't Father Christams and his wife be old, kindly people. Somehow M&S seem to think that Father Christmas should be some doddery old geezer who is married to a 45 year old 'MILF' type. Just wrong in every single way.

All these extended waranty schemes were option extras and almost everywhere offered them, hell even Amazon offer 'product protection' for certain electrical products.

So why was Dixons worst that Currys/Comet/Amazon/PC World/Tandy ect, unless I'm missing something like the insurance company Dixons used went into administration?
I've done similar twice myself, once with PC world, once with Comet. Both times I said "look, if you try to sell me the warranty one more time I am not going to bother, both times they did it anyway, then looked surprised when I got up and walked out
This puts me in mind of when me and hubby went to PC WORLD to purchase a new laptop for me when mine got smashed in the summer. (It was 5 years old!) We went to an assistant, and he said 'go sit in the PC assistance area' or words to that effect. And I was like 'umm, can we not just go to a checkout?' And he said 'no, we have a dedicated team for laptops and PC's.'

Long story short, they were hoping to sit us down for 10 minutes, blind us with bullshit, and sell us £200 of crap we don't need, (or that's free on the internet!) along with an extended warranty (when it had 2 years on it anyway!!!) Probably to make up for the laptop being only £275 in the sale!

W@nkers.
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Old 27-11-2016, 20:00
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Asda asking the dog to signal with its ears how she should wear the reindeer headband. Like there was a question of her wearing it sticking out the front of her head? Nonsense
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