What, even the latest one? It's unbelievable that anybody would trek back to the supermarket to swap a melon for a pineapple.

It's even more unbelievable that Ruth Jones would know what fresh fruit was.

Indeed and why does it take two of them to take the melon back?

one to carry it, the other one to explain why they want to exchange it

But she does both - he just stands there like a moron amazed at her resourcefulness.

as are most of us from the old comedy circuits

Yet another ad that makes the man look like a moron. I'd like to see my husband's face if I demanded he take me back to a shop to change a bit of fruit, never mind the language!

Spot on. One of my pet peeves is when people get this wrong. A few years ago a presenter of a holiday programme always finished with 'It's goodbye from Johnny and I'. Drove me potty! (P.S: The King and I is one of my favourite films!)

I could have sworn that Go West was a Village People track, covered later by the Pet Shop Boys? Unless I've been completely confused and/or am thinking of the wrong advert or memory has done weird things to my brain


(I know this could probably be resolved by an interwebs rummage but that just spoils the fun - resist the temptation, people, fight the urge!)

It is. Didn't need the internet to tell me either

Postcode lottery adverts are beyond cringe worthy and awkward. You'd think they'd have the money to make a half decent advert.

Don't get me started on the adverts with that GMTV (or whatever it's called now) reject Fiona Phillips, go away lady I hate looking at your smug decaying corpse like leathery mush. It's bad enough when ITV dredge you back from your crypt to cover for their daytime drivel whilst the fat Scottish annoying lass buggers off for her umpteenth holiday of the year, without having you forced upon me on advert breaks as well.

"and what is the lifetime payback guarantee"? It's yet another load of total b******s to entice you into buying life insurance dear.

I thought Fiona Phillips did the 'nodding dog' in the Churchill ad? It seems to be her only, vacuous expression.
Agree with all your comments but 'fat, Scottish, annoying lass'? Do you mean the 50-odd year old who ponces around in cheap clothes to a soundtrack of 'Teenage Kicks'?

That infuriating commercial for Late Rooms is back with that ginger idiot banging on about tickets! Hoped we'd seen the last of that.

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Because they both want their fees.

lately it has got worse, with the use of the reflective, I think that the ultimate was when someone told me "Myself will get that to yourself tomorrow"
Think I think maybe where as people had used "Me" and been told that, it should be "I", they had started to realize/started to be told that it wasn't "I" always, but not knowing/been taught the correct rules, (maybe because the "Cool" new teachers didn't care/ know the rules themselves), they had heard people using the reflective and thought that that was the "Posh" version and thus solved the problem.

I thought that "Postcode lottery" had to do with whether one got the medical treatment that one needed

Sounds like someone from the Western Isles talking.

it would, but this one had a South London accent, or a S'uth Lunon accent.
The corruption of the English language pains me as I had to study it as "English as a foreign language", not that it got me a British passport though unlike some who seem to hardly be able to speak it, at least they don't seem to want to in public

Show-off!!!

They buy brands so it doesn't matter which supermarket they use as they are price fixed by them all.
And anyone (two) that makes a special journey just to change a melon for a pineapple can't be bothered about saving money so totally pointless too (as well as a waste of good food).

dropping back briefly to the subject of English, I belong to Street life and can not believe the misuse of English on there and Freecycle, just read that someone was offering a "Marque", if you can't spell it properly son, call it a tent, also the the had been a brake in, where the intruder had gone through the draws, also having tried this on Google, they offer several "Chest of draws" heaven help us

That toothpaste ad. where a bunch of unedifying people look like they've just got out of bed before cleaning their teeth. I dunno about you, but the first thing I do on getting out of bed is brush my hair. I then have a cuppa and eat my breakfast before cleaning my teeth.

well with virtual no hair to brush and an en-suite bathroom, I clean my teeth before going down stairs for breakfast and then again in the downstairs cloakroom after breakfast, that way I can taste my breakfast, Pineapple juice, cereal with Kefir, followed by croissant, with Raspberry conserve and fresh brewed coffee,

the go.co. ad with that boy eating an unripe strawberry, it's GREEN you numpty, I know English people eat unripe bananas and other fruit, "Can't eat that mum, it's got brown marks on the skin" but really! GREEN strawberries