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Please give examples.

At what point do you switch off and think this guy/guys/company are full of shit


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 11:26 am
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The many many pointless acronyms a lot of bike manufacturers come up with, when all they’ve actually changed between model years is the paint colour.

That, and 650b


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 11:30 am
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Naming your company after a town, making a big deal about it, then making your stuff somewhere else.

😏


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 11:32 am
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An ad on telly about an hour ago had some whiney American telling me that my life would be transforned because of some kind of mattress topper that featured 'Award Winning Technology'.

So I turned over.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 11:34 am
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Most adverts to be honest.

Most of my viewing is via iplayer and Netflix, so when I do see adverts it really jars.

The ones that make me laugh are the bike promo vids, tells you nothing, give a pro a £100 halfords specia and they’ll make it look good.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 11:37 am
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Posted : 04/02/2018 11:37 am
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Putting "i""e" or "Green"before a product name is a subtle kind of marketeers bullshit that I really dislike. When it comes to actual guff and completely fabricated language I imagine the sports nutrition industry is probably right up there.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 11:39 am
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Paraphrasing a famous comic, so famous I’ve forgotten who.

“New and improved”

Which is it? If it’s new then it can’t be an improved version. If it’s improved then it’s not new.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 11:41 am
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<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14.4px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Naming your company after a town, making a big deal about it, then making your stuff somewhere else.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u>

Again? Really?

[edit]this new forum really is rubbish[/edit]


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:01 pm
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Bear with us, it will be worth the wait


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:03 pm
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Bifidus digestivum. Let’s take a big pot of yoghurt, sell it in tiny wee pots, make up some Latin nonsense and says its real good for you. Wife falls for this cack no wonder our shopping bills tho the roof.

Add pretty much any hair or face product targeted at the laydeeeeeZ to the list.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:05 pm
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The general attack abuse your potential customers marketing bobbins seems to work...

Treat em mean keep em keen !


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:15 pm
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On last night "74% agree"**

** of 105 serveyed.

Wow 80 people said the product worked, lets roll it out.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:16 pm
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The fake science in every make up, shampoo, diet pills, health fads etc.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:28 pm
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Car adverts that don’t actually show anything remotely relating to what the car does. Just showing the lifestyle you’ll have if you buy it, when in reality you’ll just be stuck in traffic like the rest of us.

Any cologne or perfume adverts. WTAF are they?


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:34 pm
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Hydrate or die.

Second place is first loser.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:34 pm
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Any cough and cold "remedies." We all know nothing works , it's the biggest con ever .


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:35 pm
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Every single perfume advert.
Man jumps out of helicopter, lady throws rocks at helicopter, man now has suitcase filled with money, lady runs up tall building, man eats apple with fork, lady puts on perfume. Fin.
?


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:36 pm
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Bill Hicks got it right.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:39 pm
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Every single perfume advert.
Man jumps out of helicopter, lady throws rocks at helicopter, man now has suitcase filled with money, lady runs up tall building, man eats apple with fork, lady puts on perfume. Fin.

This!!!!! 😂😂😂


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:50 pm
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I'm a dentist and recommend this product they're paying me to tell you about.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 12:54 pm
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Hydrate or die.
I'm no medical doctor but I think that's actually true.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 1:02 pm
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Which is it? If it’s new then it can’t be an improved version. If it’s improved then it’s not new.

Of course it can.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 1:05 pm
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Or.

The new Forum will be better.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 1:21 pm
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Bifidus digestivum

Sounds like a Harry Potter spell.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 1:21 pm
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The new Forum will be better.

Improved.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 1:29 pm
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Having just logged in again, I was about to nominate....

But the winner goes to:

The Conservative Party.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 1:57 pm
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Brexit.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 2:00 pm
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Corbyn, the bastard!

HOUSE!

Ah, forgot god.

Game on.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 2:04 pm
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Expensive watches.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 2:10 pm
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Old but great... For all the proper engineers out there 🙂


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 2:12 pm
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DFS sale.....buy it NOW before it's too late!

Sale ends in two days.......yeah right.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 2:13 pm
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Old but great… For all the proper engineers out there 🙂

Reminds me of that Fry and Laurie sketch lol


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 2:22 pm
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Upto 95% off!

5% < 95% The ad hasn't lied!


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 2:32 pm
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75% of cats prefer...
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Posted : 04/02/2018 6:38 pm
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New Labour....HA Ha Ha ha ha ha Ha ha Ha ha Ha 🤔


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 6:53 pm
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“So easy a man could do it giggle”.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 6:57 pm
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Saying it’s all natural ingredients.  Asbestos is natural, salmonella is natural.......


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 7:13 pm
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50mb download speed*
unlimited downloads**

*dependent on distance from exchange, the number of other customers and how crap our local cables are.
**fair usage policy applies.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 7:21 pm
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 Bear with us, it will be worth the wait

Seems to have been overlooked but made me lol.

And just to prove a point it's failed to seperate the quote from what I was saying.

****ing useless new forum.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 7:22 pm
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Kashima


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 8:31 pm
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Oakley exclusive technologies:

nofogium (anti-fog)

noscratchium (scratch resistant coating)

ISYN In their literature in the early 90’s.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 9:39 pm
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New Forum

I had to bloody log on, again, again, just to post a reply.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 10:27 pm
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Nissan Juke cars had the slogan "urbanproof mastered" !

WFT, random words stuck together with no meaning whatsoever


 
Posted : 05/02/2018 9:35 am
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Perfume ads - just random 'beatiful' people, scenes and things lobbed together. Creative, innit.

Car ads - always open road, sunshine, no other traffic, amazeballs lifestyle etc. Never sat in a queue or loading the weekly shop in the p*ss*ng rain while the kids argue and try to batter thier doors into the car next door that's in a space too small...

Any advert that tries to be personable - things like Microsoft and the messages when you do an update or install 'sit back, relax, we will be with you in a minute'. Sky do the same....


 
Posted : 05/02/2018 10:27 am
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