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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: Parts on December 18, 2007, 04:56:41 PM
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Who the hell are these adds aimed at you know the get a new Lexus or BMW for Xmas who has that kind of money to throw around. Besides if I was to get a new car I want what I want not what someone else thinks I do. The adds are always on too how many can they really sell or do they put them on to make everyone who can't afford it feel like shit?
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One of the many reasons I ceased watching Television. :)
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People forget what Christmas is supposed to be about. Advertising yuppie scum, listen up and let Wesley Willis tell it like it is. CLICKY (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Merry+Christmas/)
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One of the many reasons I ceased watching Television. :)
I like watching on the net without comercials
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I think those are aimed at people who don't mind being up to their eyeballs in debt.
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One of the many reasons I ceased watching Television. :)
I like watching on the net without comercials
Yeah that's what I do. And the best, 'worth watching' commercials make it to the net anyway on Youtube or other places.
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I think often the people these ads are aimed at is those who are looking to buy themselves the cars. It may well be that some 16yr brat gets a new lexus convertible but I don't think that is as prevalent.
I don't understand it making people feel like shit either. Perhaps I am just biased because of my vehicular tastes, and someone trying to woo me with a stock lexus IS350 or BMW 3 series may as well stand on a hill and piss in the wind.
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One of the many reasons I ceased watching Television. :)
I thought that the major one was that you had
to pay, to do so?
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One of the many reasons I ceased watching Television. :)
I thought that the major one was that you had
to pay, to do so?
Um..Who the hell has to PAY for Television?? Those unlucky British bastards. The only TV we have to pay for in Australia is PayTV, and it too is full of friggen ads... Paradoxically the only channel of all the television available to not have any advertisements is the government funded one (which is nearly almost always critical of the government, god I love free speech)
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Kinda like that here,
though the govt cracked
down on PBS funding.
CSPAN and such are free too,
but they seldom do much editorializing.
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I think often the people these ads are aimed at is those who are looking to buy themselves the cars. It may well be that some 16yr brat gets a new lexus convertible but I don't think that is as prevalent.
I don't understand it making people feel like shit either. Perhaps I am just biased because of my vehicular tastes, and someone trying to woo me with a stock lexus IS350 or BMW 3 series may as well stand on a hill and piss in the wind.
I am way to rough on cars to ever get one of the luxury type. The making people feel like shit goes more to feeling that you could never afford anything close to what they offer and anything else is nothing or being cheap
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One of the many reasons I ceased watching Television. :)
I thought that the major one was that you had
to pay, to do so?
Um..Who the hell has to PAY for Television?? Those unlucky British bastards. The only TV we have to pay for in Australia is PayTV, and it too is full of friggen ads... Paradoxically the only channel of all the television available to not have any advertisements is the government funded one (which is nearly almost always critical of the government, god I love free speech)
you have to pay a tv licence, and then you can watch as much tv as you want. then there's cable which we pay for. but i believe there are less ads than on american tv. BBC doesn't have any except between different shows, which is excrutiating (<--how the hell do i spell that word?) when you have to pee badlyy and are watching Heroes.
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It's called "affluenza". If people have already found happiness, then companies would do their best to tarnish it for the sake of profit.
"Your life has no meaning... without a car!"
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Rampant consumerism is prevalent during this time of year. Since everyone is out spending tons of money, they might as well try to get them to buy a car too. It isn't like we really NEED most of the shit we buy this time of year as gifts.
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One of the many reasons I ceased watching Television. :)
I thought that the major one was that you had
to pay, to do so?
Um..Who the hell has to PAY for Television?? Those unlucky British bastards. The only TV we have to pay for in Australia is PayTV, and it too is full of friggen ads... Paradoxically the only channel of all the television available to not have any advertisements is the government funded one (which is nearly almost always critical of the government, god I love free speech)
you have to pay a tv licence, and then you can watch as much tv as you want. then there's cable which we pay for. but i believe there are less ads than on american tv. BBC doesn't have any except between different shows, which is excrutiating (<--how the hell do i spell that word?) when you have to pee badlyy and are watching Heroes.
I always thought that was really bizarre having to pay for the privilege of receiving the signals that travel though the air
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I wish I could pay NOT to be
infiltrated with man made
radiation. :-\
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so when are you moving to Greenland again? :toporly:
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I wish I could pay NOT to be
infiltrated with man made
radiation. :-\
There is an unbelievable amount coursing through you at all times and when broadcast TV goes fully digital it will be even more. If your really concerned about it there are things you can do with where you live but on the road you have to rely on those secret Mormon undergarments :P
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I have a tinfoil hat. :angel:
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you have to pay a tv licence, and then you can watch as much tv as you want. then there's cable which we pay for. but i believe there are less ads than on american tv. BBC doesn't have any except between different shows, which is excrutiating (<--how the hell do i spell that word?) when you have to pee badlyy and are watching Heroes.
It is spelled excruciating.
:)
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Where is everyone?
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you have to pay a tv licence, and then you can watch as much tv as you want. then there's cable which we pay for. but i believe there are less ads than on american tv. BBC doesn't have any except between different shows, which is excrutiating (<--how the hell do i spell that word?) when you have to pee badlyy and are watching Heroes.
It is spelled excruciating.
:)
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cheers, matey. i figured it was the t that was wrong. :laugh: lol sometimes ol' Larry isn't up to the task. :P
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I hate adverts. Best thing about the BBC (apart from Fiona Bruce and Breakfast with Dermot) is the lack of ads. And if you like news then get BBC News 24. News all day long with pretty much no adverts. :toporly:
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you must have a gigantic bladder. :zoinks: i watched two episodes of Heroes, when it was the last two, without ad breaks. :zoinks: i didn't get to pee. :zoinks: but i managed it. :toporly:
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In the week after Sophie died I could go a whole day without peeing and didn't even feel like I needed to.
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All of you guys are just jealous that you are not as hardworking as them. :green:
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Funny, had to share this: A woman just pulled up here at work with a brand new black Mustang that has a big bow on it. She bought it for her husband who works here...
So, apparently it does happen.
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The only new car my folks ever bought
was an xmas gift.
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I've never had new car closest I ever came was the truck I have now it had 20,000 miles on it when I bought it :violin:
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I've never had a car. :laugh:
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I have always thought that for your first car you should get a heap of junk. Most people end up trashing their first cars. I did with mine. :P
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My folks offered me the old caddy,
if I had gotten a license when young.
Not a heap of junk, but damned hard
to total. My mother knocked a truck off
the hiway with it. :laugh:
We didn't stop.
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i want a ferrari
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ive always wonderd that too parts, its kindof like wtf? i think they just do it so people will get in the mood to shop for less expencive things
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I have always thought that for your first car you should get a heap of junk. Most people end up trashing their first cars. I did with mine. :P
Yeah my first was rather modest. Never trashed it though. :)
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I have always thought that for your first car you should get a heap of junk. Most people end up trashing their first cars. I did with mine. :P
Yeah my first was rather modest. Never trashed it though. :)
I hit a lot of inanimate objects. Fences, brick walls, rubbish bins, poles, etc. Thankfully I learnt with that car and haven't done anything like that in a long time.
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I have always thought that for your first car you should get a heap of junk. Most people end up trashing their first cars. I did with mine. :P
Yeah my first was rather modest. Never trashed it though. :)
I hit a lot of inanimate objects. Fences, brick walls, rubbish bins, poles, etc. Thankfully I learnt with that car and haven't done anything like that in a long time.
I did that too but with a truck that belonged to a company I worked for before I had a car :laugh:
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me too with my first car. i wrote it off eventually ploughing into a dry stone wall - I was trying to dodge someone coming the other way and got distracted by my mate passing me his spliff. don't smoke and drive, kids. :police:
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... and got distracted by my mate passing me his spliff.
This sounds quite different (to me)
than what it apparantly means. :laugh:
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I'm intrigued. what does it sound like in teh mysterious world of Calandale?
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Well, mate passing spliff
might well be a number of
things, but when down to
HIS spliff, I can only think of
a handful of jizz.
Not sure why you'd smoke ThAT
though.
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::) spliff = joint = :stoned:
is that unambiguous enough for you? :orly:
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I'd guessed that, from the context.
Still....
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You never heard of a spliff? Maybe you were not around enough Jamaicans :laugh:
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I have always thought that for your first car you should get a heap of junk. Most people end up trashing their first cars. I did with mine. :P
Yeah my first was rather modest. Never trashed it though. :)
I hit a lot of inanimate objects. Fences, brick walls, rubbish bins, poles, etc. Thankfully I learnt with that car and haven't done anything like that in a long time.
I did that too but with a truck that belonged to a company I worked for before I had a car :laugh:
Ooo oops.
Reminds me of the time I wrecked an expensive lift door by hitting it with a forklift. And not only did I do it once, I did it twice and then I got a warning. I just wasn't able to judge the timing of that door.
:paperbag:
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When I first started I hit lots of stuff with all there machines nothing major and nothing I was ever in trouble for
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Ooo oops.
Reminds me of the time I wrecked an expensive lift door by hitting it with a forklift. And not only did I do it once, I did it twice and then I got a warning. I just wasn't able to judge the timing of that door.
:paperbag:
Sure there weren't any mexicans around? :laugh:
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I'd like my next car to be a hybrid.
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i'd like my next car to be a hybrid....with a helicopter.
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I want an organic car.
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I want my next car to be a palanquin.
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Ooo oops.
Reminds me of the time I wrecked an expensive lift door by hitting it with a forklift. And not only did I do it once, I did it twice and then I got a warning. I just wasn't able to judge the timing of that door.
:paperbag:
Sure there weren't any mexicans around? :laugh:
Hmm, maybe a Mexican invented that door.