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Postby rklenseth » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:31 pm

Cookie Monster wrote:The only people the royals mean anything to anymore is foreigners. Evident by the ammount of Princess Di documentarys which get churned out in America. Apart from the odd royalist of course.


I think most people in America don't care about the aristocracy in Britain. At least I don't care.
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Postby Floyd » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:33 pm

maybe if we all ignore them, they'll go away?...
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Postby SekoETC » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:37 pm

It's possible to own a TV where the channels are taken out somehow and it's only used for watching videos so it's the channels you're paying for, not the box. I guess. People usually don't brag about not paying their TV licence because if people don't pay the cost gets higher and the ones who do pay sort of have to pay for the slackers too. So if you keep too much noise about it, someone's gonna rat you out to the inspector. I know one woman who didn't pay her licence and the inspector never came to her door, yet she got fined and wondered why... before realizing that their TV shows out of the living room window, the inspector had probably been peeping in!
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Postby Floyd » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:43 pm

yeah, there we're those really awfull adverts a year ago or so, the Tagline was something like "we know" or "we're watching you.... Creepy *shudders*
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Postby SekoETC » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:46 pm

Oh, we had a commercial running where a couple is eating in a restaurant and some guy walks by, drops his own bill at their table and walks out. The tagline is, if you don't pay, someone else has to. Or something like that.
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Postby Cookie » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:47 pm

Pretty good advert, I'll try it myself! :D
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Postby Floyd » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:54 pm

Cant Fault British advertising :wink:

Seriously though, has anyone seen adverts from the continent and America?

painful...
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Postby Cookie » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:56 pm

Adverts yeh lets talk about advets. Whats your favourite ad at the minute, mine would be the new VW golf one.
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Postby Floyd » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:59 pm

Nah, gotta be that Mini one we're the guy actually gets his revenge on the old nude Mini drivers.... is that still showing?

The 3 mobile network ads annoy me deeply :evil:
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Postby Cookie » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:02 pm

Any ads about finance, loans etc. are ussualy my que to turn over.
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Postby Floyd » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:06 pm

too true, or those claims direct kind of adverts, they make me mad

Three main sources of advert annoyance

Elephant loans, or insurance or whatever
Churchill car insurence (fun when your five)
the one with the talking blue phone that wants you to get an unsecured personal loan, he should have been Killed off years ago....

.... GRRR
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Postby SekoETC » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:11 pm

A sport shop add where the logo (that's oval shaped) keeps spinning across the screen several times when the pictures change and the music sounds like "Boom, wack-wack!" It's funny because it's oval, not round, so it looks funny when it spins. Teehee!

And another add had a load of little red cars scrolling across the screen... *giggle*

And one had shrimps in the sky and then there comes a big shrimp and it explodes! It had funny music!
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Postby Floyd » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:13 pm

And thus my point is proved about European advertising :D
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Postby Razorlance » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:14 pm

Though not strictly ad's their damn fine.

www.bmwfilms.com

Warning- only for broadband users, unless you like watching stamp sized films. Oh and there's 8 of them 5 in season one and 3 new ones.

Enjoy :D
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Postby Floyd » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:21 pm

i just watched the "hostage trailer, it actually looks quite good, if your into car chases anyways
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