Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
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Two for me today.
The first a really worried old biddy, concerned as to how she could pay £3,500 for her funeral.
She will be dead! No need to worry!!
Second advert and this really was a WTF moment. Tena Man. Yes. Pants for men who struggle with going to the loo.
Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
The first a really worried old biddy, concerned as to how she could pay £3,500 for her funeral.
She will be dead! No need to worry!!
Second advert and this really was a WTF moment. Tena Man. Yes. Pants for men who struggle with going to the loo.
Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
Thankyou4calling said:
Two for me today.
The first a really worried old biddy, concerned as to how she could pay £3,500 for her funeral.
She will be dead! No need to worry!!
Second advert and this really was a WTF moment. Tena Man. Yes. Pants for men who struggle with going to the loo.
Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
well.... possibly the old lady didn't want to land the family with a huge burden on her departure. Also surely if there is a product for it, there is a market for it. Just because it doesn't happen to you (or me) doesn't mean it isn't a thing.The first a really worried old biddy, concerned as to how she could pay £3,500 for her funeral.
She will be dead! No need to worry!!
Second advert and this really was a WTF moment. Tena Man. Yes. Pants for men who struggle with going to the loo.
Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
Thankyou4calling said:
Second advert and this really was a WTF moment. Tena Man. Yes. Pants for men who struggle with going to the loo.
Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
Although not special pants but my father had to wear Tena pads in the final years of his life due to prostate cancer, so I can imagine there is a market for them.Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
cuprabob said:
Thankyou4calling said:
Second advert and this really was a WTF moment. Tena Man. Yes. Pants for men who struggle with going to the loo.
Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
Although not special pants but my father had to wear Tena pads in the final years of his life due to prostate cancer, so I can imagine there is a market for them.Has it really come to this when a bloke has to wear special pants. I despair, I truly do.
I recommend investing now in incontinence product companies - it's a growth industry.
Escort3500 said:
DrDeAtH said:
Just Eat... Just f
k off!
Just Eat sk off!t would be far more appropriateI reckon most businesses who are registered with this type of online ordering service have been conned into joining by a glib salesman taking advantage of their (possibly) poor English. Why pay a monthly membership fee and a proportion of the takings when you'd get the order anyway?
nicanary said:
The relative success of these online companies I find astonishing. I don't know anybody at all who would order fast food in this way. Unless you've newly arrived in a town and don't know the whereabouts of the take-away shops, the chances are you already have a favourite establishment and the number is recorded on your mobile phone.
I reckon most businesses who are registered with this type of online ordering service have been conned into joining by a glib salesman taking advantage of their (possibly) poor English. Why pay a monthly membership fee and a proportion of the takings when you'd get the order anyway?
The important point being that they can pool their delivery drivers into a smaller number, and cut costs for the same number of orders, or get more orders delivered faster. People ordering takeaway food will be put off when they are told it will take an hour to arrive because the drivers are heading off in all different directions. A grouped area of takeways can now share drivers. I reckon most businesses who are registered with this type of online ordering service have been conned into joining by a glib salesman taking advantage of their (possibly) poor English. Why pay a monthly membership fee and a proportion of the takings when you'd get the order anyway?
It certainly hasn't slowed down the business of any of the favourite ones I used and yes, whilst I call up directly and then walk to pick it up because its faster than them bringing it to me, the JustEat drivers are all over the place
Technically, it qualifies as an advert for their own competition so I nominate Good Morning Britain and Andy F*****g Peters!
Is a that a job or what?
Good morning, all you greedy grabbing mo-fos, look how brassy you could be in this over-specced Merc with all this money...
As soon as it appears, I change over to BBC.
Is a that a job or what?
Good morning, all you greedy grabbing mo-fos, look how brassy you could be in this over-specced Merc with all this money...
As soon as it appears, I change over to BBC.
Edited by LuS1fer on Thursday 16th August 14:04
nicanary said:
The relative success of these online companies I find astonishing. I don't know anybody at all who would order fast food in this way. Unless you've newly arrived in a town and don't know the whereabouts of the take-away shops, the chances are you already have a favourite establishment and the number is recorded on your mobile phone.
Whereas I don't know anybody who orders a takeaway, who doesn't use just-eat or something similar! Maybe it's an age gap thing
trooperiziz said:
nicanary said:
The relative success of these online companies I find astonishing. I don't know anybody at all who would order fast food in this way. Unless you've newly arrived in a town and don't know the whereabouts of the take-away shops, the chances are you already have a favourite establishment and the number is recorded on your mobile phone.
Whereas I don't know anybody who orders a takeaway, who doesn't use just-eat or something similar! Maybe it's an age gap thing
BTW Just eat don't have a pool of drivers. The drivers work just for the franchised shop. If they get a delivery 4 miles away for which they receive, say. £2.50 instead of the regular £1.50, they don't want to do it. Why spend 30 mins doing something for £2.50 when in the same time they could do 3 deliveries in their base town for £4.50? All the franchisees I know can't wait for the contract to terminate.
nicanary said:
Because you've got to visit their website, select a shop, then select a meal, then pay for it. Instead of just pressing a pre-installed number on your phone. It's the modern way as you say - if you have a gadget available, you use it, even if it's pointless.
BTW Just eat don't have a pool of drivers. The drivers work just for the franchised shop. If they get a delivery 4 miles away for which they receive, say. £2.50 instead of the regular £1.50, they don't want to do it. Why spend 30 mins doing something for £2.50 when in the same time they could do 3 deliveries in their base town for £4.50? All the franchisees I know can't wait for the contract to terminate.
Knowing how these kinds of companies work, they'll be bending the suppliers over backwards on price... then adding a charge for service. However considering they aren't making any money, I doubt Just Eat, Deliveroo, et al. will be around that much longer. Deliveroo is already regretting it's expansion into Australia and scaling back it's operations. Outside densely populated cities with low car ownership such as London or New York services like this just aren't used enough to justify their cost.BTW Just eat don't have a pool of drivers. The drivers work just for the franchised shop. If they get a delivery 4 miles away for which they receive, say. £2.50 instead of the regular £1.50, they don't want to do it. Why spend 30 mins doing something for £2.50 when in the same time they could do 3 deliveries in their base town for £4.50? All the franchisees I know can't wait for the contract to terminate.
I think we're up for a Dot Bomb 2.0 but instead of larger companies going bust we'll see these "disruptive" companies die in a fantastic fireball of "I cant believe our lack of business model didn't work, we were sooooo disruptive". Uber, Just Eat, et al. will simply cease to exist and it's not like they've got assets to sell off.
nicanary said:
trooperiziz said:
nicanary said:
The relative success of these online companies I find astonishing. I don't know anybody at all who would order fast food in this way. Unless you've newly arrived in a town and don't know the whereabouts of the take-away shops, the chances are you already have a favourite establishment and the number is recorded on your mobile phone.
Whereas I don't know anybody who orders a takeaway, who doesn't use just-eat or something similar! Maybe it's an age gap thing
BTW Just eat don't have a pool of drivers. The drivers work just for the franchised shop. If they get a delivery 4 miles away for which they receive, say. £2.50 instead of the regular £1.50, they don't want to do it. Why spend 30 mins doing something for £2.50 when in the same time they could do 3 deliveries in their base town for £4.50? All the franchisees I know can't wait for the contract to terminate.
Here's how it goes, you've already got the app on your phone, it's already saved your last order, and if you fancy something different, the menu is on your phone, you've picked what you want, and it's saved your address and contact details, you hit pay and it's saved your payment details, all you have to remember is the 3 little numbers on the back of your payment card, and it's ordered, and paid for.
Here's the old method, you open your man drawer in the kitchen to be confronted with several menus, all of which are out of date with the prices as they were 7 years ago. You find the menu you're looking for in the cupboard below because it's fallen back. Then you pick the same thing you ordered last time. You call the takeaway to be answered either by one of 2 people, one who you can't understand or a spotty teenager, who's less interested in getting your order correct than they are updating their facebook profile. You then need to repeat your address because they couldn't hear you over the ring of the 2nd line and because they interrupted you to say hi to a friend that's just walked in, you then give your phone number 3 times. Now with the phone down you'll need to find your wallet, but it's not where you left it, you thought it was next to your phone, it's actually in your jacket, but you don't know this yet so you're frantically asking 'where's my wallet?' to anyone that will listen. Success, you've found your wallet, but did you remember how much they said over the phone? Do you have a pound coin as a tip for the driver?
I'd rather, pick up my 'pointless' mobile, 4 taps and i'm done thanks. You stick to your old ways!
ETA: Just eat are trading more than sainsburys FFS, they won't vanish overnight like a fart in the wind. I don't work for them. I just use the service. Who would've thought a thread about moaning at adverts would have so many luddites!
Edited by Silverbullet767 on Thursday 16th August 13:45
Silverbullet767 said:
ETA: Just eat are trading more than sainsburys FFS, they won't vanish overnight like a fart in the wind. I don't work for them. I just use the service. Who would've thought a thread about moaning at adverts would have so many luddites!
Trading more?Interesting phrase, but they aren't making any money. Calling people Luddites for understanding that "revenue is vanity, profit is sanity" wont change the fact that the saying is true.
They wont be around that much longer. The market is far too saturated and as soon as stores start leaving, so will the users.
Far too many young lads being caught and prosecuted for delivering pizzas as they don't have business use on their policies. if they did, it would over-ride any money they made. Stupid risk and employers don't tell them as they zoom round with their stick on adverts, begging Police attention.
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