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I can only justify this rant because the BBC advertised it.
I started watching the third part of Prog rock last night and almost went catatonic.
Pretentious people making pretentious sounds about pretentious music.
I can remember being stoned late on Saturday nights, switching on the Old Grey Whistle thingio and thinking, this is sh*t.

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Though there is a collection of hootoo type things on there.

Prog rock isn't all as wanky as ELP you know

I really hate those Mr Happy adverts at the moment. I hate they way they try to pass off tried and tested ideas as "new". That other car insurance one with Iggy Pop is freakin awful too

What are the Coco-pops advertisers trying to tell us?
That hippos are doing what hippos do, wee-ing and cr*pping in the bowl?

Mind you, that would probably give the cereal some nutritional value.

To my ever lasting shame I actually quite like the "Compare the Meerkat.com" advert....



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Happy is back...

Happy can right off as far as I'm concerned.

And the daft one about the insurance company changing it's name. When I see Bruce Willis in it, do I think about the massage of the ad.?

Oh no, I just think about how Hollywood actors often do adverts abroad, because it does not matter to them, as nobody will see it. A bit like a whisky ad in Japan. It's insulting when you know they've don the work on the basis the market it will be shown means not a jot to them.

Did you happen to have read Clive James column? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7808009.stm

He was saying something about actors only doing ads abroad in the old days to protect their professional integriy, but now not caring if they get shown at home ...

Re: that Ringo Starr/Bruce Willis ad,

I wonder how much the premium's went up to pay for the ad

The new advert for The Sun (costing 30p), claiming its "Cheap as chips".
2 issues with it.
1stly did they ask David Dickinson permission to use his catchphrase?
2ndly, have they BOUGHT chips recently? They cost WAY more than 30p.
I doubt you'd even get a chip batch for 30p.

and have you seen the implication that the Sun spreads over half an acre when it's opened out?
If you took out everything that wasn't news you'd be lucky to get enough paper to wipe your a*se.

There's an advert on the radio for a Fiat van, that declares it's "Van Of the Year 2009".

What? After 2 days? (I first heard it on Friday morning). It's a little early to tell, isn't it?

RF

Is it too soon to run over Happy with a Fiat van, roll-up a Sun and shove it up his ar... you see where I'm going with this!

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Seeing as Mr. Orange didn't coin the phrase I don't think it matters really.

Yakult are back again with that patronising "planet you" advert.
What really gets me is the bit that says it's proven to be good for you
"according to our scientists."
Yes, scientists they pay to say what they want to hear.
Oh puh-lease!

listen to julie walters going on about pull your finger out and test the smoke alarm

if you did it every time she said you would have to pray there wasn't a fire in the night because your battery would be flat, shes on 2-3 times every ad break

I test my smoke alarm every time I cook a steak.

Perhaps I should rename it the cooking alarm.

RF

i live in student halls, the alarms get a good testing every so often, lucily no stupid person has decided to test them at four in the morning or anything yet

mini

Our toaster sets ours off even when it's not burning whatever's inside. Is there a way to tune down a smoke alarm's sensitivity?

WTB Edit button - tone down, not tune!