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1 May 2011
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TV Adverts. Just had to suffer an advert for a loaf of bread which supposedly makes you the star of your office and your life so much better in general. Absolute bollocks. I’d now go out of my not to buy their product – hence why im not naming it here.
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29 August 2013
Offline meanmistermustard said
TV Adverts. [SNIP]
So true. And now we even have to put up with them on the BBC equivalents here because the government cut their funding and they all need to chase advertising dollars.
This is the main reason I rarely watch TV apart from the occasional sports event (and that crazy Chinese dating show I mentioned elsewhere), so I don’t contribute much to the TV thread we have here. I prefer DVDs and bluray now.
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I like tv advertisements. It breaks up the show and allows you to use the rest room and get some food. And some adds (Like the ones that Billy Mays was in) can be quite fun.
I was watching an infomercial about the Magic Bullet and it was so much fun.
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Annadog40 said
I like tv advertisements. It breaks up the show and allows you to use the rest room and get some food. And some adds (Like the ones that Billy Mays was in) can be quite fun.
I was watching an infomercial about the Magic Bullet and it was so much fun.
Thankfully some very clever and thoughtful people created the means to pause live tv and record and watch on demand so i see adverts very rarely. Life is so much better not having stuff forced badly down your eyeballs.
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18 March 2013
Offline Amazon.co.uk is down AGAIN for the second day in a row.
How will I cope?!?!?!?!?!
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1 November 2013
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Try Amazon.com instead
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18 March 2013
Offline I know but it’s in dollars and converting to dollars in my head is a pain, I already feel like I’ve been ripped off by the current value of the pound to euro 
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Amazon.co.uk is working now anyways (woohoo)
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3 May 2012
Offline Random men approaching me in the street to say something along the lines of ”cheer up, bab” or, even worse, ”what’s a young woman like you doing with a frown like that?”
Oh piss off.
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18 March 2013
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Random men approaching me in the street to say something along the lines of ”cheer up, bab” or, even worse, ”what’s a young woman like you doing with a frown like that?”Oh piss off.
One of the worst is ‘cheer up, it might never happen’ or ‘give us a smile’.
I was in a French supermarket before and was preparing to pig myself out on crisps when a man in his 50s came up to me and said “Hello beautiful, what are you doing this evening?”. They get my loveliest scowl.
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8 November 2012
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
I was in a French supermarket before and was preparing to pig myself out on crisps when a man in his 50s came up to me and said “Hello beautiful, what are you doing this evening?”. They get my loveliest scowl.
Unfortunately, that’s often when you get the b- or c-words and other lovely epithets yelled at you. I just try to put on my best “don’t eff with me face” and walk briskly.
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3 May 2012
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
fabfouremily said
Random men approaching me in the street to say something along the lines of ”cheer up, bab” or, even worse, ”what’s a young woman like you doing with a frown like that?”Oh piss off.
One of the worst is ‘cheer up, it might never happen’ or ‘give us a smile’.
I was in a French supermarket before and was preparing to pig myself out on crisps when a man in his 50s came up to me and said “Hello beautiful, what are you doing this evening?”. They get my loveliest scowl.
I know, I hate that. Like, it already has happened for all you know. What if I’ve just received some terrible news or something? You don’t know me so you don’t know I always look like this.
The people approaching me aren’t interested in me… they just feel they should tell me that they want to see women smiling all the time. It is usually men telling me to “cheer up”, oddly enough. Strange, that… Mind you, a guy in his 50s? Hardly appropriate.
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29 August 2013
Offline Well here’s one that’s technology-driven.
I was keeping @HongKongLady company on the bus ride home from her barbecue yesterday vis Skype, and a random passenger was peering over her shoulder directly at me. It was MOST disconcerting.
Hey dude, privacy and personal space!!
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8 November 2012
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I was keeping hongkonglady company on the bus ride home from her barbecue yesterday vis Skype, and a random passenger was peering over her shoulder directly at me. It was MOST disconcerting.
@trcanberra Made more so when you accidentally misread it as peeing over her shoulder.
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Hate it.
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Offline ^ Is that a thing that happens a lot?
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20 August 2013
Offline That would be more than a pet peeve for me! I guess I hope it is men doing that. You know, I mean “over” as in missing your shoulder. Not “over” as in pouring over it.
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8 November 2012
Offline Ahhh Girl said
That would be more than a pet peeve for me! I guess I hope it is men doing that.
I have to think I would get peevish either way.
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29 August 2013
Offline parlance said
trcanberra said
I was keeping hongkonglady company on the bus ride home from her barbecue yesterday vis Skype, and a random passenger was peering over her shoulder directly at me. It was MOST disconcerting.@trcanberra Made more so when you accidentally misread it as peeing over her shoulder.
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Ha ha – I almost typed that as well. HKL was telling me about a previous employer that had what sounds like OCD and a Toilet phobia – you don’t want to hear the details but that story led me to almost get the wording of my post wrong.
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Offline There’s a “movement you need is on your shoulder” joke in there somewhere.
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29 August 2013
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There’s a “movement you need is on your shoulder” joke in there somewhere.
And HKL has just been listening to Hey Jude which fits in nicely 
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