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No different for me, even though I had 'Scourge' on my back. One fairly normal close pass, but pretty chilled aside from that.
I did pass 2 young lads in school uniform riding down the footpath and couldn't help but wonder if they are a scourge... are they even cyclists? Just 2 kids going to school. I bet they would upset someone though.
I want a t-shirt now with 'Scourge of the Streets' written on the lower back.
That’s my new porn star name.
Or maybeChris Boardman.
Can’t make my mind up...
The day after this aired my brother was pushed off his bike at 20mph by the passenger in a van. This show seems like an incitement to violence for the dumber members of our population to me. I guarantee they voted for Brexit and probably think Tommy Robinson is an okay bloke.
I switched off after the cab driver ranting about cyclists not wearing a helmet while driving his cab without a seatbelt on (I know, they don't have to wear one, just like we don't have to wear a helmet). And the cabbie moaning about the red light jumper when there were clearly 12 cyclists at the other side patiently waiting on a red.
I saw a suggestion on Twitter that I thought was good, someone said to make a list of the companies that advertised during this rubbish and target their social media.
I saw a suggestion on Twitter that I thought was good, someone said to make a list of the companies that advertised during this rubbish and target their social media.
Do companies actually choose what programmes to put their adverts into or do they just buy "slots"? Or is it a half way house of saying "we want our advert within "documentaries" or within "romantic comedies"?
Genunine question, I don't know how it works but it'd be a tad strange if a Persil or Lidl or Vodafone had said "here's our advert, please only screen it in the middle of rabidly anti-cycling shit"...
“here’s our advert, please only screen it in the middle of rabidly anti-cycling shit”…
Surely they must have some say in where they don't want it screened though?
Probably better off targeting any outdoorsy type shop/ manufacturer that advertise on the channel in general and try to get them to remove any business they push channel 5's way.
That said, I can't think of any really?
Do Halfords? Go Outdoors? They would be the ones to hit on social media.
I was going to draw up a bingo card but I would never have expected "they defecate in our front gardens"
Too far. Deleted.
ROFL did anyone see the BBC 4 thing where gammon's were trying to get green laning banned across the peak district. Typical gammon mob tactics, bullying, lying, exaggerating, baiting and escalating, harassing public officials and tears thrown in for good measure.
The same tactics are rolled out across this country year on year. Must be tiresome for the public officials and bodies, they try it on with, time and time again.
Hmmmmm funny isn't it, how we end up with journalism, management and politicians who pull the same stunts!
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ROFL did anyone see the BBC 4 thing
Lol, yeah,I saw that. I had pretty much the same thoughts you had.
Yeah that's the one.
Some life that trying get everything you don't like banned!
I propose the heat should be harnessed as a green energy source. Maybe get them in rooms clockwork orange style, 24 hr coverage of benefit cheats, immigrants, boy racers, pot holes, MX bikes tearing the countryside up, new build housing estates being built, parking disputes, speeding, the sound of big bore exhausts and Happy Hardcore blaring constantly.
I think they would go Chernobyl mate.Lol
Yeah but there's a plentiful supply.
That unfortunately is true enough.😟
I want a t-shirt now with ‘Scourge of the Streets’ written on the lower back.
I now want one too.
Well, I saw adverts by:
- Oral-B
- McDonald's
- National Lottery
- Garnier Nutrisse
- Gordon's Gin
I'm going to start with Oral-B, since unlike all of the others, I actually use their prooducts.
I pointed out to Oral-B that if I get squashed by a motorist who had been watching that trash, then I would have to stop using their products; being dead does that.
How much of a crap journalists do you have to be to make a program like this?
McDonald's and National Lottery probably says a lot about the target viewer.
*sweeping generalisation*
From the start on my recording through Sky (do they tailor the ads to you?)...
Fairy Liquid
Gorilla Glue/Tape
Ben and Jerry's
Open Table
Neville Johnson
Babybel
Maltesers
Aldi
P+O
Play Ojo
Vanish
Age Partnership
Amazon
Compare the Market
DFS
Citroen
American Express
Bloo
Deliveroo
Always Discrete
The Game Fair (Hatfield House)
Barclays
Walls Magnum
Specsavers
Gillette
Ribena
Lidl
QuickBooks
Surf
Robinsons
IKEA
Hagen Daas
Jaguar
Lidl will probably be the first one I contact as they sponsor the Quickstep team.
I cant believe that I have wasted 45 minutes of my life watching that crap!!
If there were as many advertisers as spursn17 suggests, then there surely could only have been about 5 minutes of scourge anyway!
How much of a crap journalists do you have to be to make a program like this?
Going a bit OT but ... the same level of crap as a politician that has realised that emotives beat logics and reasons these days. The majority of people react on emotion not reason, simple.
Arthur C Clarke's 'I remember Babylon' - written in the early 60s. Only a short story, worth a read. Predicted all this a long way ahead of the internet. It's about unregulated, irresistible content and propaganda turned on a rival power's population but now we're seeing governments using it for their own population control or power gains - and most of the media are all too happy to help to stay in profit. Emotives gets clicks and clicks get ad revenue. Emotives get votes and shares and people seem happy to see laws brushed aside in order to get what they feel strongly about. Clicks, shares and votes are linked now.
So all in all a predictable, moronic anti-bike documentry isn't anything that worries me. It's just part of something that actually does. We're probably ****ed : )
If there were as many advertisers as spursn17 suggests
Some of then were really short.
If we all club together i'm sure we could buy an island somewhere
That green-laning programme referenced above dates from 2011. The lane is now closed (has been for years), it's now just a bridleway. Not long after that programme aired, I went out on the CX bike to ride if and was amazed at just how shit it was. I could have driven my bog standard estate along it. And it certainly wasn't the oasis of peace and tranquility that the locals made it out to be either.
If we all club together i’m sure we could buy an island somewhere
I havent seen the program but a couple of people had in my office.
I was told first thing that i should be ashamed and shouldn't ride a bike. this wasnt a joke!
I was told first thing that i should be ashamed and shouldn’t ride a bike
Most places it is frowned upon to call someone a ****, but I definitely would have.
Actually someone should make a program entitled ‘cars - scourge of the streets?’
I havent seen the program but a couple of people had in my office.
I was told first thing that i should be ashamed and shouldn’t ride a bike. this wasnt a joke!
I’d ride my bike around the office crashing in to their chairs. ****ing half wits.
Edit - whilst wearing my scourge of the streets t-shirt obviously
From the start on my recording through Sky...
Is that a straight-up list of all the advertisers during "scourge"? Cheers for compiling it, I'm gonna write to them all and include channel 5.
Is that a straight-up list of all the advertisers during “scourge”?
It was on my Sky recording, I went through the whole lot. I don't know if everyone sees the same ads though, it may be area based or targeted by some other method
Well, that'll do for starters - cheers. 🙂
on satellite, I think there's only 1 Channel 5 channel
on freeview, it's probably by region
for other channels, they have several regional variations with totally different adverts in each (Channel 4 has about 5 regions on satellite, but doesn't do regional programming afaik, so must be purely for adverts)
doubt it'd have any effect
Can't have any less effect than not doing anything. 😉
Can’t have any less effect than not doing anything. 😉
This
Actually, thinking about it, would it be worth writing to advertisers who are big into cycling (so Halfords and HSBC for starters) encouraging them not to support C5?
Quite happy to put time aside to do that, too - good shout. 🙂
Do companies actually choose what programmes to put their adverts into or do they just buy “slots”? Or is it a half way house of saying “we want our advert within “documentaries” or within “romantic comedies”?
Genunine question, I don’t know how it works but it’d be a tad strange if a Persil or Lidl or Vodafone had said “here’s our advert, please only screen it in the middle of rabidly anti-cycling shit”…
It's a mix.
The channels will sell advertising based on viewer numbers and demographics, they will have a very good idea who is watching what. Some of those slots will be sold directly to the big companies like Unilever and tesco who probably just buy a spread of everything as they're pretty universal, they just want viewing figures spread across demographics. Others will be bought by agencies who'll sell them on to smaller companies as bundles. So stanna stairlifts will buy a bundle that effectively guarantees them however may tens of thousands of over 65's for the minimum cost. Lastly you have very targeted stuff like sports betting during the football, or wiggle during the cycling where those slots are specifically bought.
Doesn't mean it's not worth complaining. If a company thinks it's an issue they'll ask for different slots and it wouldn't take much to make a program unprofitable, at least enough to stop it being re commissioned for a second episode.