Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
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Jim the Sunderer said:
All these guilt tripping 'Feed the poor Africans' adverts and the scaremongering cancer charities.
The water aid ones, it might seem callous but I hear the narrator say they have to drink dirty water and I just think, no they don't. Humans learnt how to filter water using stones and sand thousands of years ago, also building fire was an early human essential to boil water, have they forgotten it now? Surely education is better than reliance on others to supply fresh water.I'd pay a charity to educate but not to prolong the problem.
FourWheelDrift said:
The water aid ones, it might seem callous but I hear the narrator say they have to drink dirty water and I just think, no they don't. Humans learnt how to filter water using stones and sand thousands of years ago, also building fire was an early human essential to boil water, have they forgotten it now? Surely education is better than reliance on others to supply fresh water.
I'd pay a charity to educate but not to prolong the problem.
I totally agree. I'd pay a charity to educate but not to prolong the problem.
I'm afraid that I very much have "Compassion Fatigue" with adverts such as these.
Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 6th August 12:33
FourWheelDrift said:
The water aid ones, it might seem callous but I hear the narrator say they have to drink dirty water and I just think, no they don't. Humans learnt how to filter water using stones and sand thousands of years ago, also building fire was an early human essential to boil water, have they forgotten it now? Surely education is better than reliance on others to supply fresh water.
I'd pay a charity to educate but not to prolong the problem.
Any excuse for the Jimmy Carr joke...I'd pay a charity to educate but not to prolong the problem.
I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.
hidetheelephants said:
Who the f
k are Clas Ohlson and why is there a beardy man jigging about to Sam & Dave while brandishing a drill and leering suggestively?
Clas Ohlson are a sort of IKEA on the High Street. There is one in Reading (although obviously others too. That's the only one I have visited though)k are Clas Ohlson and why is there a beardy man jigging about to Sam & Dave while brandishing a drill and leering suggestively? bigrich4 said:
I would like to submit that advert for iPlayer music-thingy on BBC at the moment where Chris Evans is trying to hum a tune to people. I want to punch him every time I hear him go "Oooooo-ooo-oooooo, oooooooo-oooooo-ooooooo". He should know what it is anyway, he's a fking DJ! 
I wondered if Coldplay are fed up about how he's basically telling us how forgettable their tune is.king DJ! Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff