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Old 22-07-2016, 07:56
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Originally Posted by Jane_Lee3;83258080[B
]Does anyone ever EVER go on the Vanish Tip exchange?[/b]

I mean, is it actually even a THING?! If it is, then that is some special kinda sad person who goes on there. Oooh, my bar of vanish removed a stain off my jeans yesterday! I must tell people online about it.

Jeeeeeez!
No because it dosen't work
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Old 22-07-2016, 08:26
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Louise Bloody Rednapp harping on about how hard she works being a mother and wife

They are millionaires ffs. Does she not realize that us normal parents do the same as her on less money
Is that the one that is gross because she says she has to shave her vagina before she goes to a party?
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Old 22-07-2016, 09:17
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It's like one of those ads on "Chanel 9" (from The Fast Show),

And as for the name...the "Saniflo Macerator". That conjures up an image I really don't want in my head!
Ugh! Me neither!
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Old 22-07-2016, 09:19
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I wonder which particular genius persuaded Sky that a small, fluffy, white, would be dancing dog with an incredibly annoying American accent was going to have people flocking to buy their broadband.
If you mean the one with the characters from The Secret Life of Pets, it's actually a great film!
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Old 22-07-2016, 09:52
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That DAVE advert where the girl rolls her eyes at the lad who WAS ONLY ******* WAVING AT YOU! Christ!
yeah but what does that ad say to you? to me it says Dave is for nerds and losers
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Old 22-07-2016, 11:37
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That DAVE advert where the girl rolls her eyes at the lad who WAS ONLY ******* WAVING AT YOU! Christ!
Said it before here, there seems to be a trend of women in ads, especially young girls rolling their eyes at literally EVERYTHING, I even saw one once where a guy opened an oven to reveal a meal he'd cooked for his wife and she STILL rolls her eyes at him. What does that even mean? He's daft because he cooked a meal?! Eh?!
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Old 22-07-2016, 12:45
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Said it before here, there seems to be a trend of women in ads, especially young girls rolling their eyes at literally EVERYTHING, I even saw one once where a guy opened an oven to reveal a meal he'd cooked for his wife and she STILL rolls her eyes at him. What does that even mean? He's daft because he cooked a meal?! Eh?!
of course he was, everyone know that cooking is women's work, that is why they have smaller feet than men, so that they can stand closer to the cooker
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:23
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of course he was, everyone know that cooking is women's work, that is why they have smaller feet than men, so that they can stand closer to the cooker
Haha, just confuses me that one. Makes it seem like the people who produce the ads only experience of women are ones that roll their eyes at everything they've ever done. I mean, you do have to wonder.
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:32
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Someone needs to tell Jorgie Porter that having spots at 16 is normal, and that it’s also not surprising for them to go away completely by the time you’re in your 20’s, with or without proactiv.
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Old 22-07-2016, 18:01
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I think I may have just witnessed the worst adverts of the year so far (lets exclude all the charity begging ones).

Just seen the latest advert from Smart Insurance. Its the one with a man and his son watching an old VHS tape of the man when he was his sons age.

There is then the voiceover from the man, which goes something like:-

"Oh I remember back then on holiday, when I was so young. Sadly my dad's just after, but lucky our mum had the money to look after us".


Cut to man hugging his son on sofa, along with the continuing voiceover:-

"Now I'm a parent, I know its MY responsibility to provide for THEIR future."

Man then gets up and walks to the phone (where helpfully there is a leaflet for the insurance company). From this point on it the usual hammy acting, except for one thing, he states his age is 32, when the guy looks to be at least 42, very sick or lives a very hard life.

Either way if its fraud, illness or the ravages of a hard life (plus his own father dying young) I would hate to see what his life insurance premiums would be like.

Also (IIRC) this is not the first time this insurance company has gone for the emotional card. There was one a year or two ago where a young couple walk out to their car and they look next door to see their neighbour being evicted from their home, the script went something like this:-

Man - Hey, is Laura moving house?
Woman - No, remember her husband died a few months back, well he didn't have life insurance and she couldn't keep up with the mortgage payments.
Man - That's awful!
Woman - I'm so glad we sorted out your life insurance, so if anything happens to you, me & the kids will be alright. We don't want to end up like Laura.


In fact I just went to youtube to see if I could find this ad, but couldn't, yet I did find one that is even worse.

Woman in late 30's/early 40's drops her kids off at school, and then is seen going to work in her own flower shop (its always middle class couples in these ads), with (paraphrasing) this voiceover:-

Woman - Hard to think it was only 2 years ago that they lost their father, anyway life goes on! Well it does, doesn't it. Our policy was for £100,000 and we had a mortgage to pay, so I was able to pay off the mortgage. Since then my friends have taken out Smart life insurance, why risk it?

I really hate these blatant emotional adverts, also why is it always the woman who cashes in, never the man?
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Old 22-07-2016, 18:43
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Haha, just confuses me that one. Makes it seem like the people who produce the ads only experience of women are ones that roll their eyes at everything they've ever done. I mean, you do have to wonder.
make one wonder what those men have to to make all the women that they know to always roll their eyes like that
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Old 22-07-2016, 18:51
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I think I may have just witnessed the worst adverts of the year so far (lets exclude all the charity begging ones).

Just seen the latest advert from Smart Insurance. Its the one with a man and his son watching an old VHS tape of the man when he was his sons age.

There is then the voiceover from the man, which goes something like:-

"Oh I remember back then on holiday, when I was so young. Sadly my dad's just after, but lucky our mum had the money to look after us".


Cut to man hugging his son on sofa, along with the continuing voiceover:-

"Now I'm a parent, I know its MY responsibility to provide for THEIR future."

Man then gets up and walks to the phone (where helpfully there is a leaflet for the insurance company). From this point on it the usual hammy acting, except for one thing, he states his age is 32, when the guy looks to be at least 42, very sick or lives a very hard life.

Either way if its fraud, illness or the ravages of a hard life (plus his own father dying young) I would hate to see what his life insurance premiums would be like.

Also (IIRC) this is not the first time this insurance company has gone for the emotional card. There was one a year or two ago where a young couple walk out to their car and they look next door to see their neighbour being evicted from their home, the script went something like this:-

Man - Hey, is Laura moving house?
Woman - No, remember her husband died a few months back, well he didn't have life insurance and she couldn't keep up with the mortgage payments.
Man - That's awful!
Woman - I'm so glad we sorted out your life insurance, so if anything happens to you, me & the kids will be alright. We don't want to end up like Laura.


In fact I just went to youtube to see if I could find this ad, but couldn't, yet I did find one that is even worse.

Woman in late 30's/early 40's drops her kids off at school, and then is seen going to work in her own flower shop (its always middle class couples in these ads), with (paraphrasing) this voiceover:-

Woman - Hard to think it was only 2 years ago that they lost their father, anyway life goes on! Well it does, doesn't it. Our policy was for £100,000 and we had a mortgage to pay, so I was able to pay off the mortgage. Since then my friends have taken out Smart life insurance, why risk it?

I really hate these blatant emotional adverts, also why is it always the woman who cashes in, never the man?
my thoughts have always been A; would I want insure with a company that had no checks on customers and insured just any one, I would want insure with a company that only just accepted me, that way I would know that I wasn't paying a high premium to subsidizing others who were a worse risk and should have paid more.
And B; the sort of people who could afford to pay out for those "Funeral insurances" would probably be able to leave enough money to cover their funeral anyway, they are sold by instilling fear into the public, the fear of a paupers grave, a very real fear among the elderly who remember the old "Work houses" that only closed in 1948 by the first Socialist Government, ah where have they socialists gone now, blair and brown weren't
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Old 22-07-2016, 19:38
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At lunchtime Dave showed a gambling ad, a word-search for a game show where the 0906 number is charged at 3.60 plus network charge to try and win nine and a half grand. If you go for the extra two grand prize, you get charged another 3.60! The 'puzzle' is shown for a minute, with COUNTDOWN clearly visible.

Why are UKTV/BBC Worldwide showing this sort of ad when kids could easily ring in?
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Old 22-07-2016, 19:42
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At lunchtime Dave showed a gambling ad, a word-search for a game show where the 0906 number is charged at 3.60 plus network charge to try and win nine and a half grand. If you go for the extra two grand prize, you get charged another 3.60! The 'puzzle' is shown for a minute, with COUNTDOWN clearly visible.

Why are UKTV/BBC Worldwide showing this sort of ad when kids could easily ring in?
not on my phone they couldn't i had a device that stopped my step-children doing things like that, it was a big lump of wood with nails sticking out of it
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Old 22-07-2016, 19:48
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That Compare the Market advert where the two meerkats go to the cinema with a rough-looking Macaulay Culkin.

Especially for the comments about looking older than he does in the films. That's what happens when you use pictures from his heyday (i.e. before he was 14).
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Old 22-07-2016, 20:51
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That Compare the Market advert where the two meerkats go to the cinema with a rough-looking Macaulay Culkin.

Especially for the comments about looking older than he does in the films. That's what happens when you use pictures from his heyday (i.e. before he was 14).
I know they do that with me all the time, pictures from my heydays and it wasn't easy back then, we had to stand completely still while they took the picture
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Old 22-07-2016, 22:51
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The advert where the grandad helps make his granddaughters lunch
It's so cringeworthy and unrealistic
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Old 22-07-2016, 22:56
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The advert where the grandad helps make his granddaughters lunch
It's so cringeworthy and unrealistic
Why is it unrealistic

What, old people cant make lunch now
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Old 23-07-2016, 03:45
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The Virgin media ad with Usain Bolt. I dislike all of it -the music, the quick cuts, the arrogance of the man and mostly this idea that Virgin media is super fast and reliable. HA My service with them has been terrible - slow and unreliable and I don't live out in the sticks somewhere.
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Old 23-07-2016, 09:09
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What's with the Lidl ad? The one where they're advertising school uniform, notebooks, pens etc. for when the kids are back to school!!!! My grandkids have only been broken up for one day!!
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Old 23-07-2016, 10:37
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Why is it unrealistic

What, old people cant make lunch now
of course we can, not that I'm old of course, but making lunch is simple,
1; pull out cork
2; pour into glass
3; drink lunch
see it's easy
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Old 23-07-2016, 10:39
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What's with the Lidl ad? The one where they're advertising school uniform, notebooks, pens etc. for when the kids are back to school!!!! My grandkids have only been broken up for one day!!
yeah but they have to get this ad in, before they can start on the xmas ones
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Old 23-07-2016, 10:48
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Why are all the adverts that are aired before normal thinking people come home from work are about either winning money - winning a holiday - charity adverts - ppi adverts - insurance claim adverts in fact sue everyone adverts and sick animal charity's and adopt penguins adverts alike !!
You never see these adverts after 6pm so are these adverts targeting idiots ? I work from home myself and it amazes me how thick the target audience must be in the day time !!!
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Old 23-07-2016, 10:59
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Why are all the adverts that are aired before normal thinking people come home from work are about either winning money - winning a holiday - charity adverts - ppi adverts - insurance claim adverts in fact sue everyone adverts and sick animal charity's and adopt penguins adverts alike !!
You never see these adverts after 6pm so are these adverts targeting idiots ? I work from home myself and it amazes me how thick the target audience must be in the day time !!!
I "Work" from home too, how many ads have you answered, I have answered lots, but then I also answer those e-mails from Nigeria too
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Old 23-07-2016, 13:00
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yeah but they have to get this ad in, before they can start on the xmas ones
Halloween first! Though given kids can be complete horrors, maybe the back to school ads are dual-purpose...

... but then I also answer those e-mails from Nigeria too
That explains why you can't afford the staff to do your lunch for you
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