[talkSAFT]

Back to ranting....

.....how about that Money Supermarket advert that's shown every 1/4 hour with the mincing office workers taking on the builders....
Who knows or cares what Money Supermarket is? and if I knew, I'd refuse to use them solely because of their ads.
Mr.Angry

[exteecee]

Back to ranting....

.....how about that Money Supermarket advert that's shown every 1/4 hour with the mincing office workers taking on the builders....
Who knows or cares what Money Supermarket is? and if I knew, I'd refuse to use them solely because of their ads.
Mr.Angry

Couldn't agree more and my wife absolutely hates them and finds them and similar adverts absolutely distasteful.

If they are meant to be amusing the Advertising Agency have failed big time.

Perhaps Money Supermarket should join the real world where normal people don't behave like that.

PS what is the Trading Standards Agency supposed to be doing.

Exteecee

[Salopbaggie]

The Money Supermarket ads do get a bit repetitive.

IMO by far the worst are the ads for P.P.I.. "We got Jack from XXX town £6,500 in compensation". yes you may have done, but Jack could have got it himself with a 3 line letter to his lender. Those and "Where theres blame theres a claim".

[Stairs]

Birmingham Mail's move to survey you when you click on their web and twitter articles - I have started to totally ignore them and look elsewhere for the information

[drewks]

Adverts.
Every ferkin channel (apart from the Beeb, obviously) seems to consist of about 70% bloody adverts...... much the same on the radio.
I know the channels have got to get income, but surely it's got to a state now where people switch off/over because of the amount of the piggin' things.

[meandbrenarebaggies]

Yes, deliberate annoying adverts exist. It’s a well known technique
used by ad agencies. What they are interested in is getting the max
number of “clicks” in response; irrespective of annoyance. It’s a
little bit like the old saying “any publicity is good publicity” The client
who pays the agency is fully briefed about the level of annoyance
and the level of response and this is closely monitored. The trick
of how to deal with this annoyance is to realize its deliberate and
pity the client/agency reduced to using the technique. In short,
don’t get angry; get disinterested.

[Stairs]

My current rant is against morons that write software to automatically bombard an innocent chat forum website with false memberships advertising companies in the USA.

After a week of deleting rogue accounts on an hourly basis i have introduced Moderator Account Activation for all new members to stop this and hopefully at least have them give up and move on to another poor site - Ba@@@rds

[Beefy 1965]

Back to ranting....

.....how about that Money Supermarket advert that's shown every 1/4 hour with the mincing office workers taking on the builders....
Who knows or cares what Money Supermarket is? and if I knew, I'd refuse to use them solely because of their ads.
Mr.Angry

[Stairs]

Adverts.
Every ferkin channel (apart from the Beeb, obviously) seems to consist of about 70% bloody adverts...... much the same on the radio.
I know the channels have got to get income, but surely it's got to a state now where people switch off/over because of the amount of the piggin' things.    

I hardly ever watch a programme in real time because of adverts.

Instead I record everything that I like and I watch it later . This way I can fast forward through the adverts.

Better still is to wait for your programme to become available on catch up channels as they have for some reason removed the adverts from the download so the programme can be watched almost uninterrupted - it's fantastic.

[BaggieMan]

My Hates:  (well a few of them)

Drives me nuts when Tony Pulis and many other Managers/Coaches call a circa 27 year old player "kid" or "lad"
as in "he's a smashing kid"  How can you call someone in their late 20's a 'kid' ?

Football commentators who come out with stupid statements like:  "He 'tested' the goalkeeper"  "The Manager is going to 'throw' on a substitute.

Agree with you Stairs - record and fast forward is the way to go.

Paying my Income Tax when my accountant has completed my annual return. That said, my Dad always told me never to complain about paying taxes - it means you are earning money !

Brussels money-grabbing, power crazy unelected bureaucrats

Many more to follow....