Damn adverts
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.
November 1st, 2006 at 4:47 am
Actually, it bothers me a bit that I’ve now become the sterotypical male who has to flip channels during TV commercials…
I suppose next I will start drinking Beer and belching in public while scratching my nether regions. Go figure.
November 1st, 2006 at 4:54 am
Well, I don’t know how it goes over there, but over here, we USED to have relatively decent, funny adverts. and not too often.
However, these days, every bloody advert is for ambulance-chasers, or loan-sharks — they don’t even try to make the adverts funny or imaginative.
I have lots to say against the BBC licence fee, but at least it’s a breath of fresh air not having ANY adverts on BBC channels (a few years ago, they used to advertise their tv-listings magazine between programmes, but they don’t seem to do this anymore)
November 5th, 2006 at 10:45 am
adverts really do suck these days dont they! there are more and more stupid annoying people dressed up in elephant outfits, kids talking like they are grown up, oh and of course on cable after 10pm you get adverts for date and flirting phone lines, so you are watching a film and during the ad break (every 10mins!) the same ad loops over and over showing girls you so wont be talking if you were to ring the number. grrrrr!
November 6th, 2006 at 8:52 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzr_fJIx6fo
This is a funny advert, one of very few, granted!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Ah thought this wiz aboot wee rodents……..paaaah!
June 24th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
“HI I”M BARRY SCOTT!” *Zap*