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I keep watching and hoping the two Harveys furniture women will bang their heads together when they dive on that sofa, I've had no luck yet though.

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Nearly all my TV I watch is recorded on my HD recorder, so all adverts go the way of the 'Fast Forward' button. However, I did start to watch the Paralympics and the constant repetative annoying adverts were starting to get on my nerves.

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I'm afraid most advertising is a waste where I'm concerned, if I need something I will buy it, but if I don't need it then no amount of advertising will persuade me, and sometimes if the advertisement really hits a nerve, I wouldn't go out and buy the stuff, just to spite the advertiser.
Another thing I've noticed though, is that I can often remember the advertisement if it was funny or striking, but more often than not I can't for the life of me remember what the ad was was trying to sell...

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Me too Graham I am afraid the advertisers are wasting their money on me as well.

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As with many other folk, I too hit the 'mute' button during commercial breaks, and I use the 5/6 minutes to 'channel-hop' and see what else is currently being aired...often finding something more interesting and staying with that!...(unless it's a particularly interesting documentary I'm currently watching, or a 'How It's Made' sort of prog!).

As for the ad's themselves'?...I'll save that for another post in case I tend toward's my natural verbosity!...

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Falconer,
please don't curb your natural verbosity on my account.

How it's made is one of my favourite progs. THe most interesting ones are when they make simple things ,like first aid sticking plasters.


Some of the ads are really clever, but what they were selling.........who knows?

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yep its wasted on me as well, I like the meercats,cant stand the Cumbria Building Society one, I could smack that little boy.But what they are selling goes over the top, havent a clue.

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I agree with Robert Jr, the adverts for fiance /loans, & stuff, are made very glam, make it seem so easy to the young who are usualy broke , the repayments are usualy 200% interest & the rest, they are a rip of, & too easy to aquire, this day & age, there are many people so desperate ,they go into this without giving much thought , further than what they need the money for ,its too easy, they realise when they cant repay it , then the real problems start Junk these add's

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So true ANji..


I blame Carol Vorderman for the global financial meltdown for fronting the ads encouraging folks to consolidate ALL their debts into ONE easy to repay debt. People trusted her to be savvy.

mebbe?

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Mebbie < , she gets blame for a lot of things, as it appens, she even advertised loans !!!! i wonder tho, why cant people be happy with enough?? thats all we need