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"One day, at work, Barbera Collier's Chair collapsed..."

Is anyone else sick of the way advertisement breaks are now full of such tripe as these compensation adverts?

'Have youm had an accident lately that wasn't your fault?' Isn't an accident, by definition, nobodies fault?

What has happened to our society? 50 years ago, if you fell off your chair at work you would be called a 'clumsy oaf' and told to get on with it. Nowadays, 'Barbera Collier' can claim £6,000 for falling off a chair and spilling her tea over herself.

Has anyone here ever tried to claim compensation for tripping up, spilling their tea or breaking their nail? Is there no such thing as a true accident anymore?

> That's giving it a bit too much credit than deserved Deb. I think the
> words your looking for are 'utter' and 'sh!te'

Perhaps, I don't know how these companies have the audacity to transmit such rubbish in the same hour as the brilliant Matthew Wright! They should be ashamed, and then hang their heads in shame.

DébUK wrote:
> I thought that advertisements had reached rock bottom already, but NO!
> I was watching the QUALITY programme that is 'The Wright Stuff' on
> Five when during the ad break, the worst. advert. ever. appeared...
>
> It was an advert for holiday compensation. It was so cheap and tacky
> (even worse than the one where they are jumping over hurdles!) There
> was this bald, tragically poor actor claiming that you can now sue for
> having a cr@p holiday. No, this wasn't the worst part; it went on to
> show a woman with singularly the WORST Essex accent ever on a phone
> saying, "allo, this is > ya?" it was advert trash at its finest!

That's giving it a bit too much credit than deserved Deb. I think the words your looking for are 'utter' and 'sh!te'

It's a conspiracy to annoy you.

I thought that advertisements had reached rock bottom already, but NO! I was watching the QUALITY programme that is 'The Wright Stuff' on Five when during the ad break, the worst. advert. ever. appeared...

It was an advert for holiday compensation. It was so cheap and tacky (even worse than the one where they are jumping over hurdles!) There was this bald, tragically poor actor claiming that you can now sue for having a cr@p holiday. No, this wasn't the worst part; it went on to show a woman with singularly the WORST Essex accent ever on a phone saying, "allo, this is arr can I 'elp ya?" it was advert trash at its finest!

Hey shut up! It might just work.

*flips 'nalities (new abbreviation copyright me)'

No it won't you little scum sucking fool!

this has to be the definitive law suit:

I read that a man in America (i believe) is suing himself for making his own life a misery.

he suffers from multiple personalities and claims one of them makes his life miserable. If the court finds that any given personality has no control over the actions of any OTHER given personality, his insurance people will have to pay him.



*applauds the guy for trying at least*

that's ridiculous....

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> I don't mind the halifax song adverts. But the cartoon ones were
> awful.

are you mad?!?!?!?!?!
there horrifying!!!
that Liberty X re-sing makes me want to cut people! :)

I don't mind the halifax song adverts. But the cartoon ones were awful.

There's one of those adverts that used to be on all the time...haven't seen it recently thinking about it, but anyway... they have this woman leaning on her car who says "I was asleep in the car and I woke up and realised we'd had an accident".... well dear the way to avoid such occurences is not to fall asleep at the wheel ;-)


(I know they're implying someone else was driving really, but thats just the way it always struck me)

I also find those Halifax adverts really annoying

Yup, I hate to change the channel when those ads came on. Their campaighn worked in a way though, evertime you think of a crap advert your'e gonna think of HALIFAX. It's a bit like unintentional reverse pyschology. I think that's right anyway...