Infomercials

Trollheart · 03-15-2018, 12:53 PM

We've all been subjected to them. Maybe you're coming in from a long shift, or just too lazy to go to bed just yet, or they've come on while you're waiting for a progamme to start. Maybe you've been stuck at some TV that's the only distraction at a hospital or some other area where you have to wait. Most of them are annoying, and after a while they become almost hypnotic. Which ones do you hate or even love the most? Has any one of them ever caused you to go and buy the thing that they advertised?

For me, it's this ****ing crap. I am so sick of hearing this bitch go on about her god-damn product! Kill yourself, do us all a favour.

**Frownland** · 03-15-2018, 01:05 PM

Since I don't have cable, I've found them pretty easy to avoid.

Trollheart · 03-15-2018, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Since I don't have cable, I've found them pretty easy to avoid.

You're lucky.

I remember being at the hospital with Karen overnight once. Normally they're not at all fussy about people staying in A&E with the person they came in with (family, carers etc) but this one time apparently some staff nurse got a bee in her bonnet and enforced the "nobody except patients and staff allowed" rule (which is hardly ever adhered to) and had us all kicked out. So, for about seven hours I was outside in the waiting area, with this playing on constant loop on the one TV there (not sure why nobody got up to change it, and I was too tired and too self-conscious to do it myself)...

The worst thing about these (other than the fact they exist) is that they go on for maybe ten minutes at a time (before being rerun) and the amount of repetition in them is ridiculous. If I had heard "Remember, this is only using the power of steam!" one more ****ing time....

OccultHawk · 03-15-2018, 03:13 PM

I just get up and turn the TV off so I can read.

Trollheart · 03-15-2018, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I just get up and turn the TV off so I can read.

You get UP? You livin' in the dark ages, man? Never heard of a remote?

OccultHawk · 03-15-2018, 06:45 PM

They don’t have remotes laying around in waiting rooms

They’re called “space ******s” down here in Dixie btw

The Batlord · 03-15-2018, 07:04 PM

So to protest infomercials this thread shows us infomercials?

DwnWthVwls · 03-15-2018, 07:35 PM

Purple pillow and other purple products have sone decent infomercials

The Batlord · 03-15-2018, 07:40 PM

I kinda do like to watch those infomercials with two hosts and watch the one not talking so I can marvel at their facial expressions and head nods.

Trollheart · 03-15-2018, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

So to protest infomercials this thread shows us infomercials?

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Which ones do you hate or even love the most? Has any one of them ever caused you to go and buy the thing that they advertised?

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03-15-2018, 12:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	Infomercials We've all been subjected to them. Maybe you're coming in from a long shift, or just too lazy to go to bed just yet, or they've come on while you're waiting for a progamme to start. Maybe you've been stuck at some TV that's the only distraction at a hospital or some other area where you have to wait. Most of them are annoying, and after a while they become almost hypnotic. Which ones do you hate or even love the most? Has any one of them ever caused you to go and buy the thing that they advertised? For me, it's this ***ing crap. I am so sick of hearing this bitch go on about her god-damn product! Kill yourself, do us all a favour. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018*

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Since I don't have cable, I've found them pretty easy to avoid. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	I just get up and turn the TV off so I can read. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-15-2018, 06:45 PM	#6 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	They don’t have remotes laying around in waiting rooms They’re called “space ******s” down here in Dixie btw __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html