Time for a Revolution??

How loud do we need adverts to be??!!

Do adverts intrude - How loud do they need to be?

Why do the TV advertisers time after time deny that they don't turn the volume up during ad breaks? Do they think we are stupid?

The irony is that all I do (and most of the people I know do) is turn the sound off and ignore the adverts. Okay, so if they reduced the sound, if we were interested we would turn the sound up and then when the programme started it would blow our ears off!

It's not that it's a 'lose lose' situation, but how dare they assume they can intrude. If we move away from the TV and the sound increases, sometimes it can be so loud that it wakes our daughter up. Surely that's an invasion of privacy??

These people have the balls to deny they increase the volume. So, are the general public all stupid and incorrect? Nah!! Perhaps they are just lying ba*tards who are allowed to get away with it because they grease the appropriate palms.

When are we, in the UK, going to stop being taken from behind and allowing the rich become more powerful and rule our lives. Don't get me wrong, good luck if you've worked hard and honest to achieve a good lifestyle, but if you crap on everyone and cheat at everything then you deserve a big fall and as the saying goes, no-one wil catch you on the way down.

Perhaps politicians and people in influential positions should start flicking through blogs and hear what "joe public" is saying, but I'm fairly sure they won't give a sh*t because doing the right thing doesn't fill their wallets.

there's a better way

01:41, 14/9/2006 .. Posted by friedfysh

I don't even watch them anymore. Instead I make coffee (though I have developed a slightly unhealthy addiction) 15 cups a day isn't too much, right??

Coffee or Ads

07:25, 14/9/2006 .. Posted by wrgpaul

Totally agree. Did you know that (and I think this is still true), that the electricity board pay people to watch TV so they can 'push' more 'juice' down the cables to our homes when the adverts come on, because the increase on kettle usage puts a strain on normal supply.
Apparently, electricity can't be drawn by an appliance, it has to be provided and if they didn't push the extra current, appliances would fail.
I checked this bit of info with a sparks and apparently it's true (or a bloody big conspiracy to make me look an arse!)

Interesting remark in one of your earlier comments on this blog, that Americans don't use the expression, "taking the piss". Why is that, do you know? (and how) and what is their equivalent?

taking the piss

08:15, 15/9/2006 .. Posted by friedfysh

I'm not sure exactly why they don't, but they don't, the reason I know is because I said it one day in a crowd of them and then had to spend ages explaining myself. I tried "taking the mickey/mess" to no result. They finally understood when I reduced it to "making fun of somebody" but this isn't all - they have no idea what "bollocks" or "wanker" mean either. Nor (and this one I find unusual) to be "cross" in the sense of being angry. There's many more things that ar different too, I had never realised just how different their "English" is until I met some.

National grid

08:20, 15/9/2006 .. Posted by friedfysh

I forgot to mention that to my knowledge the increase in electricity is true (unless i'm also caught in the conspiracy). I had heard that before and used to know why but have since forgotten, I think it is something to do with the pressure (voltage) not being high enough to support it. Kettles are extremely power hungry and that much I can tell you as fact.
Another thing, I don't know if you have already seen it or not but it seems to me taht you would like the film "V for Vendetta" I did.

Vendetta

08:51, 15/9/2006 .. Posted by wrgpaul

I will give the film a go, I am going to surf for it now and will let you know what I think once the DVD's arrived and it's been viewed. Thanks for the tip

Extracting the Urine

08:56, 15/9/2006 .. Posted by wrgpaul

Do they just have a limited vocabulary or perhaps a limited intelligence? (Only kidding).
I certainly get the impression that irony doesn't appear in their dictionarys and arrogance comes before Aadvark!!
I do love the way they change their history books to make themselves look better. I will end on my personal opinions in this respect, I want a revolution, not a war with the states. Still, that won't happen, I think Blair has got his tongue so far up their arse he's guaranteed our allegance for many decades to come. If there's another World War, they might join in at the beginning this time (ouch, did I say that out loud?) Ah, what the hell, most people think it anyway, ha ha.

World War

01:35, 16/9/2006 .. Posted by friedfysh

If there's another world war they will be in it from the beginning. It's gonna be a US versus rest of the world affair. I reckon 15 years before it kicks off.