Adverts getting rediulous!

In the USA, they have the intro then go to adverts. We import a lot of their shows with these pre-made ad slots.

What grinds my gears is that I pay silly amounts for Sky TV, thus I pay silly amounts to watch 20 mins of ads per hour!
 
asim18 said:
What really embarrasses me are the god damn Tampon/Towel/Condom/Durex Play/Canistan Duo/Talk to Frank adverts.
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HAHAHAHA, are you 14 and watching tv with your parents and granparents?!?! :D

They are always a good laugh seeing as advertising has had to become so abstract to catch your attention, so we play the guessing game of "what the hell they are trying to sell" tampons are always ammusing....
 
So glad the F1 is moving away from ITV for the new season. It now means the only tv I can be bothered to watch is on the BBC.
 
I'd still rather take the adverts over £150 a year going to the BBC coffers. Overpaid ******

If the BBC wants money, they can have adverts and put on decent programming.

Maybe I'd pay a tenner a year for no adverts in top gear, but thats their lot.

+1 for watching things 20 mins after they start on sky+
 
Audigex said:
I'd still rather take the adverts over £150 a year going to the BBC coffers. Overpaid *****s.

If the BBC wants money, they can have adverts and put on decent programming.

Maybe I'd pay a tenner a year for no adverts in top gear, but thats their lot.

+1 for watching things 20 mins after they start on sky+
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So rather than pay £150 a year for no adverts/radio/website etc which are mainly very good quality, some people are happier paying around £500 or more a year for tv that is mainly **** and full of adverts that are **** .... I see.
 
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I've witnessed on some stations in the US, that the like to end the program you're watching, show you adverts, and then roll the credits for the program that's finished!

I've seen this. It scared me.
 
I can't stand adverts. They're usually all rubbish (bar Guiness ones for example) or trying to sell me stuff that if good, I'd be buying from recommendations off forums not an ad.

It's why I don't watch TV, if I do - then it's a DVD of the series or on iPlayer.
 
Sky+ so fast forward through the adverts and never watch anything live. Unfortunately that can lead to having to catch up with an entire season of smallville when you get bored with it after a couple of episodes...
 
manic111 said:
Only watch TV for sport and 24. I pause 24 though using Sky+, and start watching it 20 minutes later so I can spin through the ads :D
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Even if I do say so myself I've become quite adept at whacking it up to 30x and bringing it back down to 1x before it overshoots into the next bit of the programme. You kind of get a sixth sense when the ads are going to end after you have established each channels ad pattern. Ch5 is the easiest because they have chuffing great "themed" adverts prior to resuming the programme on CSI for example. Eurosport is tricky though, they often have really short ad breaks which by the time you wind it back after overshooting you may as well have watched the add in the first place.
 
I've never watched television in my life, In our house of an evening we sit on spikes while practicing the voilin. When we want to really relax we recite haikus to each other.

Yes, adverts are ****.
 
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