Archive for October 29th, 2006

Damn adverts

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

I went to the cinema recently, and it only then hit me how much that whilst I don’t really watch much TV, when I do, I rely totally on the remote-control to zap the adverts. I can’t watch an advert for 5 seconds – I have to flick over, or switch on teletext, or do something.

It was really annoying in the cinema – I was really missing having a remote control to skip over them.

Private AND Confidential

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

We all (in the UK at least) are familiar with the above phrase on any letters from banks etc.

But why the need for the almost tautologic phrase ?

How clear is the distinction between the 2 ?