Who said the credit crunch was a bad thing? It certainly isn’t if you’re a daytime TV watcher - that’s for sure!
Y’see, thanks to a bunch of Americans not being able to pay their mortgages, the unemployed, the self-employed, the students, the housewives and the ill of this land no longer have to put up with those bloody consolidation loan advertisements … huzzah!
No more Carol Vorderman advising us to put all our eggs into one easy-to-pay basket, no more Picture Loans man being amazed at how little he and his family need to pay, no more hurdlers from all walks of life being turned down for a loan because they’re retired or have bad CCJs. They’ve simply disappeared!
So, let’s all raise our glasses to the credit crunch, ladies and gentlemen! And here’s to it causing the arse to fall out of the ambulance-chasing market next.
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*cups ear*
i was thinking something similar last week when i was off. but i seem to remember thinking they’ve been replaced by something equally as mind-numbing…
I wouldn’t know as I have to bloody work. Daytime TV’s an alien world to me, sadly…
That’s a good observation. They’re like a tumour straved of a blood supply.
I am constantly immersed in daytime TV - whether on the wards or at home. IT SUCKS. The programmes are just as bad as the adverts - endless strings of “Look! I redecorated / bought / sold a property!” shows; Antipodean soaps and warbling panels of mindless women “personalities”. The financial adverts have now been replaced with reams of be-your-own-boss messages. Become a driving instructor, start selling Avon. Bleh.
I even saw one today touting randomised clinical trials! “Sign up if your doctor suggest it! We need guinea pigs!”
All the advertising agencies have pooled their resources into one advert been shown across the US: ‘Are you one of the US’ premier money lending firms?’ Have you been failing to meet payments lately? YOU can re organise your payments into one easy payment, stop the stock market from crashing and forcing the rest of the world to hang around outside skips offering handjobs for coins!
Surely there’s just lots of Accident Helpline adverts now, instead?
Yes! Avon! That’s it… Jeez, if I see one more “say Hello tomorrow” or whatever, I’m going to scream.
That’s what the article refers to as ‘ambulance chasing’… you have to assume companies won’t be so flush that they pay out of court, so those Accident Helpline type outfits could well die on their arses…
‘Be your own boss’ adverts… Christ. Did the clinical trials advert contain images of that bloke whose head went all swollen and the fellow whose hands fell off a year or so back?
Thank god we’re not in America – we were watching some American Football last night and there were adverts for Viagra and everything – VERY cringy to watch.
Valid point, Swineshead. Although I always see an advert for them at 5.30pm, just before Neighbours, come rain or shine. Ugh!
Has anyone seen the adverts for “Juverderm”, I think it’s called - sort of like botox, maybe slightly less serious. But advertising “beauty injections” seems a tad serious!
Juverderm, eh? Where do I sign?
Sounds like it makes children hairy. Dodgy name.
I have been watching nothing but the E! Entertainment Channel for 36 hours straight and have forgotten all about the horrors of real life and the credit crunch. All my adverts are for cosmetic surgery, skin dewrinkling creams and celebrity magazines. Plus, did you know that the star of High School Musical has a “major say” in what he wears in public? That’s real news, not this $50b banks buyout deal which, let’s face it, affects very few people.
You’re mixing it up with pubery, SH.
Puberty* Although pubery is a fantastic word too.
NC, I thought you were on your hols?
http://www.getrandomised.org/GR_Glasgow.mov
Pubery sounds like it should be an STD
Napoleon is on holiday - that was written on Friday, see?
Sounds more like a deviant sexual act -a person who rips fanny cress out at the roots after gaining unlawful entry to the nether regions
Oh I see, or rather, I didn’t
That lowered the tone, Piqued. Thanks!
Fanny-cress… OOOOF
Ha ha ha… like that!
Interesteing weekends everyone? I slept mostly.
Yes, i’m THAT interesting.
I watched jazz Saturday, went to my sister’s for some tuna steak, cherry tomato, chili and cous cous Sunday. Lots of alcohol was consumed. Brill.
Partied Saturday, Chilled Sunday (with my homies).
Four episodes of the Wire, two meals out, two pints of coca cola in the pub with Piqued. THAT WAS MY WEKENSASADdlm
Cor, well done everyone for having super weekends!
I’m playing my weekend down of course, in between sleeping I managed to eat some takeaways, read some Take a Breaks and watch about 12 episodes of The First 48 back to back (my fave at the min).
My weekend was rubbish. You know what I did? Laundry. Relentlessly. I take no pleasure in carrying out domestic tasks - my hand was forced when, looking with dismay into my wardrobe, I actually considered wearing running shorts and a ruby sequinned halterneck top because there was nothing else clean.
I totally would have rocked that look.
running shorts and a ruby sequinned halterneck top
Shoreditch.
Hoxton. Please.
Haggerston. That’s my final offer.
SCREW YOU. ISLINGTON OR I TAKE MY CUSTOM ELSEWHERE.
You’ll never afford Islington. Put in an offer on Stoke Newington but I can’t guarantee anything.
Today’s a right fucking bore, ain’t it?
Good lord, yes. There’s nought to do since it won’t bloody stop raining. Apparently, They’ve decided that the reason Scotland’s population is so abysmally unwell is because we never get any vitamin D.
Good news! It wasn’t the heroin, lard and moonshine after all.
Write a Massive review, SH, you toad.
morning!
…There goes the neighbourhood
I believe there is something new in the offing SH?
I finished watching the wire on the weekend. Bloody brilliant finale.
Ugeine. STOP RIGHT NOW. SH and I are in the middle of it, any plot give-aways and we’ll have you killed
He wouldn’t dare, Piqued.
Is the Dave who just called me a ‘toad’ (I’ve heard worse) I’mtheotherDave or another Dave? I can’t keep up.
Can I at least tell you about the final all cast ensemble singing and dancing scene? ‘Baltimore, Baltimore, we all love, Baltimore.’
Neither can I. I may have to cosmically order an answer
where are you up to with the wire SH?
We are all one collective consciousness.
Please can we not discuss The Wire at all
‘Some of us might be criminals, some of us might be cops, but we all thought we’d join and sing ‘Baltimore, we love you lots!’
Ugeine - I’m pretty sure that’s not a quote but please don’t take the piss? Put yourself in our place, y’bastard. I thought you were such a lovely bloke.
*sniff*
I am up to ep. 3 series 4 now, Charlie… gets better and better…
Piqued is in the middle of series 2 so no spoilers please….
What did everyone have for their din dins? I had a brie and cranberry thingy. Yum.
The Wire is worse than being addicted to narcotics, ironically
Sorry, I made one of my knee-jerk decisions about The Wire from the sound of the name (thought it might be to do with spies or something) and refused to watch it despite you all singing it’s praises. I now regret that decision having seen an advert for it and thinking it looked pretty darned good.
*kicks own shins*
I had a cheese and salad cream sub, followed by a Tunnock’s wafer and a vat of coffee. I feel violently ill now :¬(
Clarry, get them all from LoveFilm like wot I dun
A piece of stale wholemeal bread with Sriracha chilli sauce on it.
I really need to do a shop.
Will that get me sent to interwebular-prison?
‘I really need to do a shop’
Sure you meant ‘op’ there
Clarry - Lovefilm’s completely legal last time I checked.
Series one is only about 14 quid from amazon.
Oh, ok, I might get it then. Is it really brill?
clarry, imagine shagging hugh fearnley whitingstall on a big pile of sweeties …..
Well, The Wire is better even than that.
maybe its a boys thing though. my testicles have grown 4″ in diameter since I started watching.
I have to agree with CM, I think it’s incredible, best TV show since Oz
Best TV show since Britain’s Worst Teeth….
Ew! I love him, but I wouldn’t ‘do’ Hugh. I don’t much care for sweets either, so I guess a bit of an anticlimax awaits me…
I haven’t had a programme I loved so much my balls grew for ages. I feel left out!
As a girl, I would be most upset if any television programmes caused my private area to grow. Deeply disturbing.
Clarry - you dont want to shag hugh fernley whittingstall and you dont like sweets. how do you fill your day woman?
That gaping mawing chasm can only be filled by one thing … the wire
Brilliant show. Sorry, SH and piqued, I won’t mention another peep.
CM - See account of how I spent my weekend (above - 12.22pm) for how i’d fill my day if it weren’t for having to hold down a proper job!
whats the first 48?
First 48 is a brill prog on Crime and Investigation network that follows the homicide departments in the US. The premise of the prog is that after the first 48 hours the chances of solving the murder halves, therefore from the moment the 911 call is received the timer starts to count down…. The prog then follow the detectives as they visit the crime scene, gather the evidence, inform the families, speak to the witnesses, interview the suspects, chase the fugitives, and catch the killer (or sometimes mop their brains up if they are too late). Sometimes they solve it and sometimes they don’t. I find it fascinating.
Ive never even heard of that one clarry. I only have freeview.
I live in a tiny little lane with only four cottages and its not worth their while to put in cable. Im happy enough with the 25 channels of shit I have already though. But I will check that out if I get chance.
Most likely that I will illegally download it from utorrent though. my current downloads stand at about 50 GB. the sweet illicit joy. its even better than that time I shagged hugh on that giant pile of jelly babies. those pink ones get everwhere. ooh er missus.
Oh, it’s on about channel 3,000,608 on Sky. I am a newbie to Sky - I turn over during a break, start flicking and then forget what I was watching and start watching another prog. Too many channels - 90% of which are rubbish.
attention deficit disorder. were all sufferers now. I only got broadband a year ago, knowing that, previously being someone who worked from home freelance Id be unable to resist the temptation to watch shit all day. for the same reason, I only had the basic 4 channels on my tv.
last summer I got broadband, freeview and a new computer with a giant screen and 380GB memory. I havent left the house since. whats it like out there these days? Any good?
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