Don't know if this helps explain it...

http://creativity-online.com/work/ik...ome-home/49351

Not properly... do they all run on batteries or did the boy also scrounge a load of extension cables???

They are probably all solar-powered and this is within a day or two of purchase, i.e. before it becomes apparent that we really don't get enough sunlight in this country to get the best out of these.

[ I was very annoyed at a recent purchase of those garden lights on stalks because the older ones - which lasted several years until the bugs cocooned/dissolved/ate the circuitboards - had real-life removable rechargeable batteries which you would be fine topping up every month or so - but the newer ones don't seem to have these unless I should look beyond the 'absolute cheapest' end of the shelf which just feels like an admission of defeat ]

I once designed a solar powered torch, but as it would only work in Sun-light, for some reason no manufacturer took it up

Hahahahaha!!!!

So are you saying that we're supposed to think it was one of the kids who is responsible for all the lights? That doesn't come across at all. How could he possibly have achieved that?

I take it you won't be purchasing Len Goodman's 'Crooners and Swooners'?

What is the point of it? It's not him singing, is it just his choices? And according to Amazon reviews, all or some of them aren't even the original songs.

I can't be bothered to go back and check if this advert has already been mentioned, but the one that's getting on my nerves at the moment is the Argos advert that's been running for a while now in which the voiceover hypes up the availability of "free vouchers".

Of course, these vouchers aren't free at all.

You only receive them when you spend a certain amount at Argos to begin with.

I know it's pedantic, but it just really grates when she enthusiastically talks about "free" vouchers when they're nothing of the sort.

Can't they just say that you get a voucher when you spend X amount, without misleadingly declaring them to be "free"?

I suppose technically they are free in that you're not paying for them. They'd have had to check this out with legal eagles before releasing the ad, I'd have thought. 'Free' is rather unnecessary though.

LOL I love your posts

I have no idea. That was my point.

"Alexa, play my rainy day playlist" said no one in real life - ever.

The Argos ad advertising a 'FitBit Charge HR'

Absolutely 100% sounds like the woman says ''Fit Bitch Arge HR''

The way she says it, all in one go. She makes no attempt to distinguish the ending of 'bit' and the beginning of 'charge'. I have to do a double take every time it's on in the background!

That Monarch Airlines one. The advert itself isn't that bad to be honest, though somewhat sickly.. Just that it seems to be on pretty much every flippin' ad break. I don't recall such advert overload since the days of Crazy Frog ring tones.

I thought that about the mum as well!

Another nomination for the facebook 'video live' one, not just because I hate people sending me links of what they are eating while they are eating it, but because they are all recording it the wrong way round I mean how could the advertisers not spot the massive blank areas at each side when making the advert, do they not record in widescreen? They even had to make up some decorative filler in a failed attempt to hide it!



I have a surplus of dehydrated water if you'd like to buy some, at bargain-bucket prices!

Aren't those Bargain Buckets full of chicken quite expensive?

The Amazon Christmas ads make me cringe

I don't know I sent it back because it was empty and never got charged.

Apparently the chicken, being what it is, had run away. The lesson here is that there's no point having a lid if there's a hole to escape through.

How nice that loreal's latest celebration of self-absorbed vacuity includes an actress affecting vocal fry. The only thing missing is the word "amazing". For now, anyway.

I KNEW there was a reason I avoid Facebook like the plague! Do people really record themselves eating? How extremely gross.

I won't claim to be intimately familiar with facebook, because I only ever see it by accident - on the other hand I do see the links and the descriptions etc so in a way it might be my imagination making the things worse than they are - unfortunately loads of other places aren't blocked so I am not entirely immune to the output of people who just can't seem to stop recording...

Who narrates that currys pc world Christmas advert? The one with the nativity and the Bose headphones. My dad reckons it's jo brand but I don't think it is

Chanel No5: Gaunt looking model strolls around pulling her best Zoolander faces to a song that sounds like it was knocked up on a 20 year old PC


Ebay: Dad and son listen to same song which son remarks "sounds much better on vinyl", but it in fact just sounds like something knocked up on a 20 year old PC


Always: Woman DJ “As a woman I can either step aside or step up the game”… cos only women can do this, obviously... and as for her “defying expectations”, if the backing music is anything to go by, let’s just say her set sounds like something knocked up on a 20 year old PC.

Always: Woman DJ “As a woman I can either step aside or step up the game”… cos only women can do this, obviously... and as for her “defying expectations”, if the backing music is anything to go by, let’s just say her set sounds like something knocked up on a 20 year old PC.[/quote]

The woman in the advert WILL probably end up being knocked up a 20 year old PC